# All My Rails Apps Died Over the Holidays **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 10, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918 "2006-01-10T16:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/1 "2006-01-10T16:03:32Z")
I have several Rails (version 1.0) apps I’m working on on a Win XP box using Webrick that were working fine before I left for the holidays. I came back, started up and they all get the same syntax and compile errors: compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/time/list.rhtml:4: Invalid char `\212’ in expression repeated over and over. Refreshing the page gives thes same error but for seemingly random parts in the rhtml files. The application trace is: #{RAILS\_ROOT}/app/views/time/list.rhtml:4:in `module_eval' -e:3:in`load’ -e:3 I tried reinstalling Ruby and rebooting and doing a gem update, but nothing seems to affect it. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/2 "2006-01-10T16:07:38Z")
Stupid question, but best to get it out of the way: out of hard drive space? – Alex ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/3 "2006-01-10T16:10:40Z")
Marcus V. wrote: > for seemingly random parts in the rhtml files. > > The application trace is: > #{RAILS\_ROOT}/app/views/time/list.rhtml:4:in `module_eval' -e:3:in`load’ > -e:3 > > I tried reinstalling Ruby and rebooting and doing a gem update, but > nothing seems to affect it. Any suggestions? You did not copy any code from a browser lately…? I had this problem when i pasted code from blogs with quotes like´some text` instead of ‘some text’ // JoNtE ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/4 "2006-01-10T16:21:36Z")
Alex Y. wrote: > Stupid question, but best to get it out of the way: out of hard drive > space? No, still three and a half gigs left on the 'ole hard drive. And no, haven’t pasted anything from the web. In any case, this is happening on 4 different apps, all of them were working fine before. I’m also getting this line at the bottom of the errors: \_erbout.concat " Description\n" Seems to be related to the the other errors and it also changes when I refresh the page to other random lines in my RHTML files. ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/5 "2006-01-10T16:35:03Z")
On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Marcus V. wrote: > I’m also getting this line at the bottom of the errors: > \_erbout.concat " Description\n" > > Seems to be related to the the other errors and it also changes when I > refresh the page to other random lines in my RHTML files. A friend of mine (Troy Heninger) reported something very similar to this when trying to run Family Connection on his Windows machine. Here’s the error messages he was getting: SyntaxError in Administrator#setup Showing app/views/layouts/application.rhtml where line #10 raised: compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:10: Invalid char `\002' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:11: Invalid char `\003’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:13: Invalid char `\002' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:16: Invalid char `\003’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:31: Invalid char `\020' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:31: Invalid char `\002’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:32: parse error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " \
\n"0/ ^ ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:33: parse error, unexpected tSTRING\_BEG, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " "t.; if flash[:notice] ; \_erbout.concat “\

”; \_erbout.concat(( flash[:notice] ).to\_s); \_erbout.concat “ ”; end ; \_erbout.concat “\n” ^ ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:33: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " "t.; if flash[:notice] ; \_erbout.concat “\

”; \_erbout.concat(( flash[:notice] ).to\_s); \_erbout.concat “ ”; end ; \_erbout.concat “\n” ^ ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:34: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " "s; if flash[:error] ; \_erbout.concat “\

”; \_erbout.concat(( flash[:error] ).to\_s); \_erbout.concat “ ”; end ; \_erbout.concat “\n” ^ ./script/…/config/…/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:34: Invalid char `\002' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:35: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:36: parse error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting kEND _erbout.concat " "8; end ^ ./script/../config/../app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:36: Invalid char `\002’ in expression Extracted source (around line #10): 7: 8: 9: 10: \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag “application” %\> 11: \<%= stylesheet\_auto\_link\_tags %\> 12: 13: \<%= javascript\_include\_tag ‘prototype’ %\> Trace of template inclusion: /app/views/layouts/application.rhtml RAILS\_ROOT: ./script/…/config/… Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace #{RAILS\_ROOT}/app/views/layouts/application.rhtml:41:in `compile_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/administrator_controller.rb:28:in `setup’ He couldn’t seem to track down the problem at the time, however. He used subversion to get the code, so it wasn’t a cut-and-paste issue. Perhaps he’s made further progress? Duane J. (canadaduane) [http://blog.inquirylabs.com/](http://blog.inquirylabs.com/) ---

**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/6 "2006-01-10T16:44:56Z")
> He couldn’t seem to track down the problem at the time, however. He > used subversion to get the code, so it wasn’t a cut-and-paste issue. > Perhaps he’s made further progress? > > Duane J. > (canadaduane) > [http://blog.inquirylabs.com/](http://blog.inquirylabs.com/) Definitely looks like he was having the same problem I’m having, and come to think of it, the last thing I did was try to install Family Connection (unsuccessfully). I wonder if something that I did then has broken everything. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/7 "2006-01-10T17:01:59Z")
Marcus V. wrote: > > He couldn’t seem to track down the problem at the time, however. He > > used subversion to get the code, so it wasn’t a cut-and-paste issue. > > Perhaps he’s made further progress? > > > > Duane J. > > (canadaduane) > > [http://blog.inquirylabs.com/](http://blog.inquirylabs.com/) > > Definitely looks like he was having the same problem I’m having, and > come to think of it, the last thing I did was try to install Family > Connection (unsuccessfully). I wonder if something that I did then has > broken everything. Hmmm. Yeah… this is what it ended up being. In my effort to install Family Connection, I put a file called mysql.so that I found online to get the ruby/mysql bindings to work in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt Removing it and restarting my applications solved the problem. Strange… but it works now. This isn’t where I got the file, but this looks like it might have the right way to get the ruby mysql bindings installed if anyone is curious: [http://seagecko.org/thoughts/in-the-past/2004/09/09/ruby-mysql-and-windows/](http://seagecko.org/thoughts/in-the-past/2004/09/09/ruby-mysql-and-windows/) ---
**Author:** ![marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@marcus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-my-rails-apps-died-over-the-holidays/94918/8 "2006-01-10T16:53:17Z")
Maybe encoding problem. I find that for some files when saved in utf-8, ruby will report ‘invalid char’. These hidden chars are invisible in editor.