From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2009-12-11T01:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Using OCRA, FXRuby and pdf-writer problem

On Dec 9, 10:17 pm, Omar Campos <hypermeis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
>  I did some more testing and found the following:
>
> I commented out any lines that had to do with the pdf generation, ran
> the app using RubyW and it worked.  I then uncommented the the line:
>
> require 'pdf/writer'
>
>   Now, running with rubyw, nothing happens.  It seems that something
> inside pdf/writer does not let rubyw work properly. Have you, or anyone
> else out there, encountered this problem?
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I think it is the warning messages that are causing the issue
They abort execution when using ruybw because stdout (or it maybe
stderr) doesn't exist
You may be able to redirect stdout and stderr to a file (or /dev/null)
before requiring the pdf lib so the messages have a valid place to go

cheers
Chris