From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T01:08:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax error from element.rb

Grimble wrote:
> Not a regular Ruby developer.
> Rebuilding a Ruby environment after moving from Mandriva 2008.0 to 2009.1.
> 
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i586-linux]
> ruby-svg-1.0.2
> I get the following error trace
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
> `gem_original_require': /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/svg/element.rb:423:
> syntax error, unexpected $undefined (SyntaxError)
>       svg << %| textLength="#{@}"|   if @length
>                                ^

svg << %| textLength="#{@}"|   if @length

isn't legal Ruby. The @ can't stand alone. It's a prefix indicating an 
instance variable, like "@length". I don't know why it wasn't being 
diagnosed before. It looks like an search-and-replace error of some sort.

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