From: George Moschovitis Date: 2006-11-26T03:00:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Problems with String#hash > There is no guarantee that String#hash will behave the same in all > versions of Ruby. If this is a problem for you then you probably have > an application design problem. Why is this behavior a problem for you? Yeap, this is an application design problem. This is an old (legacy) application. It is strange that this problem has not shown up all these years (this is a 4 year old application). And it is really strange that has gives the exact same result on 4 different ruby installations and not on the target server. -g. -- http://blog.gmosx.com http://nitroproject.org