From: Mk 27 <halfcountplus@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T12:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: env change, or iconv library self-mutated???

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> OK, then can't you show the iconv.rb which causes the problem?
> `gem which -a iconv' shows the all paths.

[root~/ruby/docsearch/app/controllers] gem which -a iconv
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux/iconv.so

Like i said, AFAIK there is no "iconv.rb" on my system.  But the error 
in my OP was the cut n' pasted error, no typo:

iconv.rb:7:in `<top (required)>': uninitialized constant Iconv

However, the path (which I removed) is the path of my script 
(/root/ruby/) which does not contain an icon.rb either.

I am *very* new to ruby.  I wrote the script, as I said, it worked fine, 
then I moved the code to my controller and added 'require "iconv"' at 
the top -- although I am not sure if there are more caveats in rails (or 
whatever, etc).  Anyway, after that did not work, probably I checked the 
syntax and decided that I could not see a problem, then I went to back 
to the script, and probably fooled around with that for half an hour 
presuming I was confused until, as mentioned, I had the problem with a 
two line script, rebooted, same deal.

However, *ahem* I just went and tested the original test script:

require "iconv"

file=File.new("/usr/share/doc/HTML/httpd-docs-2.2.2.en/mod/mod_expires.html","r");
lines=file.lines.to_a
file.close

conv=Iconv.new("UTF-8//TRANSLIT//IGNORE","ISO_8859-1",)

x = Array.new
lines.each { |l|
        tmp=conv.iconv(l)
        x.push tmp.gsub!(/<[^>]*>/,"")
}
x.delete_if{|l| l !~ /\w/}
x.each { |l| puts l }

and it works with no complaint now.

I just want to be honest with you.  I have been programming full time 
for several years (C and perl) and this is the first time I have 
actually filed a bug report with anybody.   If this happens again, I 
will try and garner more details.

Sorry -- but thanks for your vigilance.  Still curious about where 
"iconv.rb" is tho, and why the API does not refer to the environment 
variables you mention.

MK
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