From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T17:34:43+09:00
Subject: Kirbybase problem

Jamey,

After a very long wait, I'm finally diving into the Kirbybase gem.

My problem is that I'm trying to create a table, following very 
carefully the example given in the quite nice documentation (!), and 
it's not working for me, and I cannot see the problem. The code 
(stripped to essentials):

  def main

  %w(rubygems logger kirbybase yaml).each{ |lib| require lib }
  db = KirbyBase.new(:local, nil, nil, './', '.tbl', './', true)  # 
requests that table indexes be created NOT when table is r
  ead in but when it is first referenced

  # create tables
    newsitems = db.create_table( :datestr, {:DataType=>:String,  
:Required=>true,  :Index=>1})
 
  # insert some data <= *interpreter never got to this*
    newsitems.insert( '2008.03.25a', 'First Title', 'First URL', false, 
'This is an extended summary of the news item.' )
    newsitems.insert( '2008.03.25b', 'Second Title', 'Second URL', 
false, 'This is another extended summary of the 
    news item.' )

  end  

This produced:

$ ruby kirbyaml.rb
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/KirbyBase-2.6/lib/kirbybase.rb:566:in 
`create_table': Must have a field type for each field name (RuntimeError)
        from kirbyaml.rb:31:in `main'
        from kirbyaml.rb:42

Originally, I had several variables in the table, but reduced this to 
one to try to find the error, and failed. I simply don't see it.

Reduced further, to this -

   newsitems = db.create_table( :datestr, :String )

the same error is produced.

Can anyone give me a clue as to the problem?

Thanks,

Tom

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