I've been running into this problem with gems and plugins recently when using ruby 1.9.1p0.
A review of syntax.y from ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 shows the grammar rule for then no longer includes the literal symbol ':'. This change causes commonly used idioms for case expressions and loops to fail. These no longer work: case when CONDITION : BODY end while BOOLEAN : BODY end until BOOLEAN : BODY end for NAME in EXPRESSION : BODY end Am I mistaken? Is this a feature? This is the question I asked the Ruby language group (redmine.ruby- lang.org Bug #1389) which produced this response: It was an "accidental" feature in the first place. It's been removed to simplify the new hash literal syntax. At this point, I've found problems with rubyist-aasm and attachment- fu. No extensive search here just trying the plugins/gems I've used. So, if you're trying to work with ruby 1.9 and you're seeing error messages that look like: attachment_fu.rb:106: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' search out the ':' and replace it with 'then' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
