From: Ryan Davis Date: 2007-05-28T09:43:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Core dump On May 27, 2007, at 17:03 , Steve wrote: > Can someone confirm this so I know if it's my ruby compilation or not? Why? Ruby shouldn't core dump. Ever. Either ruby has a bug or a binary extension does. Did you do something freaky when you built your ruby? If you can reproduce the error, rerun like so: % gdb ruby > r script.rb blah blah BOOM! > bt stack trace