From: Francois Goret <fg@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T21:59:35+09:00
Subject: Bug in CGI::Session ?

Hello,

The following doesn't work anymore with the latest CVS version of Ruby 1.8:
----------------------
require 'cgi'
require 'cgi/session'

cgi = CGI.new
session = CGI::Session.new(cgi)
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fg@tkp:~$ ruby test.rb
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi.rb:947:in `dup': can't dup NilClass (TypeError)
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi.rb:947:in `to_ary'
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:37:in `initialize'
	from test.rb:7:in `new'
	from test.rb:7

Looks like the bug follows the changes on CGI#[] done on Dec 28th.

What makes me love Ruby is the short term solution:

class NilClass
  def dup
    nil
  end
end
.... and my 12000 lines cgi script works again ;-)  

Francois

PS: BTW, why nil.dup is illegal by default ?