Why upgrade to 1.9.3 then? Why no testing i= n advance of the upgrade?

Valid points or not concerning any = change to the core of the language - it's always your responsibility to= ensure things work prior to upgrading major pieces of your infrastructure = isn't it?

You have made about 3-4 posts today and not one of them has been = anything but negative. So you don't like ruby it appears - well that= 9;s unfortunate and I'm sure if you took the time you would see the lig= ht - but that's not going to help you right now either way.

So how about asking some more positive questions on the subject?
You said it would take a week to fix this - why so long for 2 small issues= you've discussed thus far?

The DBI issue seems like a single l= ine of a patch to a single file to remove that issue. And quite frankly I t= hink it makes perfect sense to not be able to add something to a list of it= ems while you are running through that list. And the fix is equally simple = to understand - run through a copy and modify the original if needed. 10 mi= nutes and done.

And the load path issue (require failing) has been addressed mult= iple times and it's not that hard - something like this added at the to= p of your files should solve that issue. Even 100 or so files doesn't t= ake that long to shove something like this in.

$:=
.unshift(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))) unless
    $:.include?(File.dirname(__FI=
LE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))

That simply adds the '.' folder back into your l= oad path. 2-3 hours max here for a lot of files? If you truly have that man= y files there are always tools like sed and friends that can help (but I ha= te pulling them out unless I REALLLLLLLLY need to :) ).

I understand the frustration - but you certainly are not engendering mu= ch help from others with the off the cuff ranting.

John

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