From: Tommy Morgan <tommy.morgan@...>
Date: 2008-06-27T02:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: undefined local variable or method 'rsion' for main:Object

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Hi Steve;
If you run `ruby -version`, since you only use a single dash, the word
'version' isn't treated as a single flag but instead as a list of flags. In
this case, it picks up the -v flag, which prints the version information.
Then it tries to process the e flag, which basically says "the rest of this
line is a ruby script to execute." So ruby faithfully attempts to parse
"rsion", which is where you're getting the NameError.

To just get the version info, you can do `ruby -v` or `ruby --version`.

Hope that helps,

--TM

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Steve Meyer <sjmeyer@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I just installed ruby 1.8.6, on RHEL 5.1
> my configure command was:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --enable-shared
> --with-readline-dir=/usr
>
> When I run the version command, after the version info is displayed the
> error:
> -e:1: undefined local varriable or method 'rsion' for main:Object
> (NameError) appears.
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
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