From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T03:27:56+09:00
Subject: Re: tabs and parse errors with Ruby 1.8.4 and Windows

On 10/7/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Will Rogers <wjrogers@terpalum.umd.edu> wrote:
> > This is a cross-post from the Rails list in hopes of getting some
> > information from people who know more about the Ruby side of things.
> >
> > I get compile errors from ERB in my Rails views when I load the ferret C
> > extension. Apparently this also happens with RMagick. The most common
> > response I've seen is to replace all tabs with spaces, and the problem
> > will go away. I would like to know why that works, what the problem is,
> > and if there's anything I can do to fix it. Making sure none of my views
> > contain tab characters is not a solution I'm comfortable with for a
> > production environment. This is what the errors look like:
> >
>
> Just chiming in to say that I get these as well. I've just been
> search-and-replacing tabs with spaces, rather than bothering to get to
> the bottom of it.
>

I'd love to know what is causing this problem. I tried reproducing it
here but I couldn't. Even installing an older version of the one-click
installer didn't help. Ferret still ran fine and tabs didn't seem to
do anything. What is is about tab characters anyway?

Anyway, I'm still looking into it. I might try and get my hands on a
few other systems to test on.

Cheers,
Dave