In principle MRI is always right, so unless there's a comment or spec that explains why we deviate it's a bug.
Eloy On 24 aug. 2011, at 18:19, Steve Clarke wrote: > I want to use PostgreSQL with macruby. > > At first I couldn't make this work. I eventually had some success and > learned quite a lot on the way. I'm not sure whether I found a bug in > macruby but it certainly behaves differently from ruby 1.9.2-p290 installed > from macports. The latter worked with postgres with no problems. > > My first try was with macruby 0.10 stable. I couldn't get the pg gem > (pg-0.11.0) to compile and eventually gave up. There were lots of obscure > errors which I regret I've not recorded. > > I then moved onto macruby 0.11 which I compiled from source that I checked > out today. pg-0.11.0 now compiled but when I tried to use postgres from my > macruby test I aborted with a failed dynamic link to ENCODING_GET_INLINED. I > soon realised this was another name for ENCODING_GET and I added the > definition to macruby's encoding.h. > > I could now get as far as connecting to postgres and retrieving a result set. > However, as son as I tried to examine any of the values in the result set I > aborted: > > Assertion failed: (idx >= 0 && idx < ENCODINGS_COUNT), function > rb_enc_associate_index, file encoding.c, line 590. > Abort trap: 6 > > I eventually found that pg was passing an idx of -1. I modified the the pg > code to prevent this happening and it now works fine, as far as I've gone. > > It seems to me that pg should not pass an index of -1. ruby 1.9.2-p290 > however seems to accept it. So who's right ? > > Hope this is of interest to someone. > > Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
