From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-08-11T23:27:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Error: Bignum too big to convert into `long'

Matt Mencel wrote:
> Solaris 10 SPARC is 64bit.  It may be the ruby version I have installed 
> was compiled for 32bit?  It's an older version of 1.8.7 off of 
> sunfreeware.com.  I noticed that sunfreeware has a newer 1.9.1 version 
> available there now so I think I'll upgrade ruby to 1.9.1 and see what 
> happens.

Remember that ruby 1.9 is a significantly different language to ruby 
1.8. Unless you are lucky, or fancy modifying your app to work with 1.9 
(and maybe its dependent libs too), I think you'd be better off finding 
a 64-bit build of ruby 1.8.7.
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