# Commit2rss.rb - running on hooking up CVS NT

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commit2rss-rb-running-on-hooking-up-cvs-nt/69952 "2006-09-25T20:15:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commit2rss-rb-running-on-hooking-up-cvs-nt/69952/1 "2006-09-25T20:15:30Z")

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Hi all,

I’m trying to get Dave T.’ commit2rss.rb ruby script running on  
windows XP using CVS NT v2.0.51d. The script is at  
[http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/downloads/commit2rss/commit2rss.rb.txt](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/downloads/commit2rss/commit2rss.rb.txt)

I’ve removed unix references to etc and Etc.getpwuid parts. and my  
command in the CVS loginfo is as follows

# Ruby script to generate an RSS feed for commits to Underwriting module

Underwriting/\* D:\development\test-workspace\scripts\commit2rss.rb %{}

I’m stumped as to why I’m getting the following error on commit. I’ve  
included the some verbose output from cvs.

→   
loginfo:Parse\_Info(D:/development/test-cvs-respo/Underwriting/JavaSource,D:\development\test-workspace\scripts\commit2rss.rb  
%{} )  
 → run\_popen(D:\development\test-workspace\scripts\commit2rss.rb  
“Underwriting/JavaSource” )  
D:/development/test-workspace/scripts/commit2rss.rb:44:in `gets’: Bad  
file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)  
from D:/development/test-workspace/scripts/commit2rss.rb:44

Line 44 refers to this block of code

while line = STDIN.gets  
line.chomp!  
if line =~ /^[A-Z]._:\s_$/  
desc \<\< “

**” \<\< line \<\< “** ”  
else  
desc \<\< line  
end  
desc \<\< “  
”  
end

I’d appreciate any help on this.

Thanks,  
Paul

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commit2rss-rb-running-on-hooking-up-cvs-nt/69952/2 "2006-09-26T00:12:07Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

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loginfo:Parse\_Info(D:/development/test-cvs-respo/Underwriting/JavaSource,D  
\development\test-workspace\scripts\commit2rss.rb

Hoo-boy. I think you need to decide which path delimiter to use, and  
stick  
to your single choice. The above line is truly ecumenical, but I don’t  
think Ruby is. I don’t have a Windows system to find out how Ruby reacts  
to  
these freely mixed delimiters, but this line really stands out.

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**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/commit2rss-rb-running-on-hooking-up-cvs-nt/69952/3 "2006-09-26T13:16:37Z")

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I’ve removed that potential problem from the script, but to no avail.  
From reading through some of the news groups there seems to be some  
suggestion that Ruby needs to have a real console to read from STDIN.  
Whether this is specific to Ruby on Windows I do not know.

Does anyone have knowledge of Ruby on Windows to answer this?

Thanks,  
Paul

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From: Paul L. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]  
Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 23:10  
To: ruby-talk ML  
Subject: Re: commit2rss.rb - running on hooking up CVS NT

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

/ …

loginfo:Parse\_Info(D:/development/test-cvs-respo/Underwriting/JavaSource,D  
\development\test-workspace\scripts\commit2rss.rb

Hoo-boy. I think you need to decide which path delimiter to use, and  
stick  
to your single choice. The above line is truly ecumenical, but I don’t  
think Ruby is. I don’t have a Windows system to find out how Ruby reacts  
to  
these freely mixed delimiters, but this line really stands out.

–  
Paul L.

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