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On Tuesday 22 April 2008, ara howard wrote:
> http://p.ramaze.net/1188

I can confirm this with Ruby 1.8.6 (OpenSuSE 10.3):

marc@tetsuo:~/tmp> ruby 1188.txt
1188.txt:3: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07) [x86_64-linux]

Aborted

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:00 AM, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> 
wrote:
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>  http://p.ramaze.net/1188
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I have the code down to this

560/60 > uname -a && cat bus_error.rb && ruby -v bus_error.rb
Linux roma 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 
GNU/Linux
class String
  def snake_case
    gsub(/\B/, '')
  end
end


"".gsub('', '').gsub('::', '/').snake_case

ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-11 patchlevel 5000) [i686-linux]
bus_error.rb:3: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-11) [i686-linux]

Aborted (core dumped)

Please note that the two gsub seem to be necessary as well as the /\B/

HTH
Robert

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> 
wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:00 AM, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  http://p.ramaze.net/1188
>  >

One-Click Installer:
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mswin32]

t.rb:3: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [i386-mswin32]

new One-Click Installer (MinGW, ruby_1_8 branch):
t.rb:3: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-11) [i386-mingw32]

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At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:00:17 +0900,
ara howard wrote:
> http://p.ramaze.net/1188

Thanks.  It has been fixed in the ruby_1_8 and ruby_1_8_7 branches.
The ruby_1_8_6 branch will be taken care of later.