From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T06:36:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing shell commands from Ruby...  again.

Alle venerd狸 16 marzo 2007, Kevin Skrenes ha scritto:
> That makes perfect sense, but for some reason I'm getting this error:
> : can't find string "END_OF_STRING" anywhere before EOF
> : syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or
>
> tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END

Are you sure that the second END_OF_STRING is right at the beginning of the 
line? What I mean is that the following code

cmd = <<END_OF_STRING
  text
  END_OF_STRING

will produce exactly the error message you get, because the closing 
END_OF_STRING is not at the beginning of the line (there are some whitespaces 
before it). The correct form is:

cmd = <<END_OF_STRING
  text
END_OF_STRING

If you really want some spaces before the closing END_OF_STRING, you should 
use the <<- form:

cmd = <<-END_OF_STRING
  text
  END_OF_STRING

which allows spaces before the closing tag.

I hope this helps

Stefano