From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2011-01-28T07:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: HELP! New to Ruby and need to debug for work! Chomp! Error

Have you got the debug flag turned on, and does it output anything to 
the console? I would expect it to say something like;

srv> nil

... in which case the socket gets method is returning nil for whatever 
reason. If you just wanted to ignore it, you could have it return an 
empty string or something if l == nil and see what breaks further down 
the line. Maybe the socket connection is going away, or there is nothing 
more to read off the socket? I'm not familiar enough with Ruby's socket 
libraries or the Classes/ Methods therein sorry.

def readline(f)
     l = f.gets
     puts "srv> %s" % l if $debug
     if l.kind_of?(String)
l.chomp!
     end
     l
end

Sam


On 28/01/11 11:26, Doug Blackman wrote:
> Thanks for replying Sam.  I just tried it and got the same error
> message.
>
>