From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-28T18:51:51+09:00
Subject: Re: "wrong argument type nil (expected String)" from Dir.chdir

Hi,

In message "Re: "wrong argument type nil (expected String)" from Dir.chdir"
    on 03/11/28, Tim Kynerd <vxbrw58s02@sneakemail.com> writes:

|> By the way, it's a lot easier for us to fix, if full step to reproduce
|> the error was disclosed like this at the first time, without guessing
|> the (wrong) cause by yourself, folks.
|
|That I'm not sure what to do with. I don't see that it applies at all to
|my initial post.

The problem has nothing related to Dir.chdir.  Please give us
something like the steps quoted below at the first time, it would help
us a lot.

							matz.

|> |Installed 1.8.0 with the following result:
|> |
|> |xxx@kynerd:~> cat chdir_test.rb
|> |Dir.chdir("/")
|> |nowdir = Dir.getwd
|> |puts nowdir
|> |xxx@kynerd:~> irb
|> |irb(main):001:0> Dir.chdir("/")
|> |=> 0
|> |irb(main):002:0> nowdir = Dir.getwd
|> |=> "/"
|> |irb(main):003:0> puts nowdir
|> |/
|> |=> nil
|> |irb(main):004:0> exit
|> |xxx@kynerd:~> ruby chdir_test.rb
|> |/
|> |xxx@kynerd:~> ruby -r debug chdir_test.rb
|> |Debug.rb
|> |Emacs support available.
|> |
|> |chdir_test.rb:1:Dir.chdir("/")
|> |(rdb:1)
|> |nil
|> |chdir_test.rb:1:cannot convert nil into String
|> |(rdb:1) q
|> |Really quit? (y/n) y
|> |xxx@kynerd:~> ruby -v
|> |ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
|> |xxx@kynerd:~>
|> |
|> |I.e.: No luck. :-(