From: Vandemoortele Simon <delirious_nospamplz@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T04:54:43+09:00
Subject: Strange cgi.rb <--> StringIO problem

Hi,

I hope someone can help me figure out this strange behaviour because
I've been at it for hours ...

_Problem:_
When reading multipart data with cgi.rb I get an initialization
error: "undefined method `binmode' for #<StringIO:0x4032df14>"
at about line 657 in cgi.rb.

Investigation reveals that the method binmode does not exist on my 
StringIO because it is not the standard StringIO (I don't have it
installed); in irb StringIO is not defined and cannot be loaded. In
cgi.rb however StringIO *is* defined and StringIO.superclass returns
'Object' (and not 'Data' as one would expect).

Does anyone know what is going on ?

_My configuration:_
Debian GNU/Linux (unstable)
ruby           1.6.8-3
libruby        1.6.8-3

$LOAD_PATH (in irb and cgi.rb):
    /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6
    /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6/i386-linux
    /usr/local/lib/site_ruby
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.6
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux


Puzzled,
Simon


P.S.: In previous versions cgi.rb did not use StringIO (only TempFile)
and I didn't have this problem.
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