From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-01-15T20:57:43+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your ruby rough cuts ?

Joseph Lenton wrote in post #975106:
> Back on topic, my number one gripe with Ruby has always been 'unexpected
> $end, expecting keyword_end' parse error. It's given when you load a
> file but you've missed out an 'end' keyword somewhere in your script.
> The parser has reached the end of the file and still expects to see one.
> The main issue is that you could be missing an 'end' anywhere in your
> script, yet it reports the error on the very last line (which is just
> useless).

I understand your pain, I used to do the binary-chop thing too :-)

The solution is to run your code through ruby 1.9 with -w flag; it warns 
about indentation mismatches, which generally show where the problem is, 
exactly as you described.

(This is the only reason I have a copy of ruby 1.9 installed)

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