From: MAwiniarski <MAwiniarski@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T22:52:05+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid char '\220' in expression

While using gems with NetBeans,


I've created new Rails Project
then generated Scaffold
then I want to create database
using Rake Task db:create :

and gets:

...
.../mysql.so:1: Invalid char `\220' ('<square>') in expression.

I've installed mysql ruby gem earlier. And mysql.so comes with this
gem.


On 10 Wrz, 21:37, "Jano Svitok" <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 21:18, MAwiniarski <MAwiniar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> > Maybe *.so files needs to be saved in a different encoding (ASCII,
> > UTF, ...) ?
>
> .so is usually renamed dll file (on windows) or the library itself (on
> linux), so no encoding change needed.
> What are you doing when you get this error?