From: MAwiniarski <MAwiniarski@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T22:08:29+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid char '\220' in expression

On 10 Wrz, 13:26, Lars Christensen <lar...@belunktum.dk> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 1:00 pm, MAwiniarski <MAwiniar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Using Ruby in NetBeans I've got following error in separate cases with
> > gems:
>
> > <path>/<file>.so:1: Invalid char `\220' in expression.
>
> > What is it about ?
>
> By coincience, I stumbled over the exact same error message yesterday
> while making a wrapper for some ruby scripts. It turned out I had
> accidentally called ruby.exe with the ruby.exe executable as argument,
> for example (simplified):
>
>     system("ruby c:\\ruby\\bin\\ruby.exe")
>
> '\220' is 0x90 HEX and the third byte (after two ASCII chars) in a
> Windows executable or DLL. Ruby doesn't like that when attempting to
> parse an executable.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Lars

I'm using it with NetBeans Rails project, running Rake Task db:create
(already defined command).