# Help, Gruff is killing me **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310 "2006-05-03T18:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/1 "2006-05-03T18:56:40Z")
Hi all, I hope somebody can help me out here, since the issue has been killing me for the last three days. Here is the issue: It seems that gruff kills rails/webrick whenever it’s used on win32. I installed gruff per instructions and it seems to be working. The sample controller generates a nice grpah with send\_data and all. The issue started once I try to use any other controller/template. Once a gruff graph gets generated and sent to the browser any SUBSEQUENT requests to other controllers fail with weird compile errors. For instance: Showing app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml where line #5 raised: compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:5: Invalid char `\001’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:6: parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " Show ID\n" ^ Extracted source (around line #5): 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: Trace of template inclusion: /app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml RAILS\_ROOT: ./script/…/config/… Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace #{RAILS\_ROOT}/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:6:in `compile_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/admin/show_management_controller.rb:12:in`index’ A quick restart of webrick fixes the issue until I generate another graph that is ☹ Thanks Rafael | Show Name | Show ID | Location | Action | | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/2 "2006-05-03T18:56:44Z")
Hi Rafeal, One thing you might try is renaming mysql.so (do a search to find out where is it on your system) to see if it’s a driver issue. MySQL will pick up the native Ruby drivers if it can’t find the compiled version (which is what mysql.so is). There’s a known issue with the compiled version and WEBrick that’s currently under investigation. Changing drivers might not help, but it’s cheap to try 😉 Best regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: “Rafael S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:15 PM Subject: [Rails] Help, Gruff is killing me Hi all, I hope somebody can help me out here, since the issue has been killing me for the last three days. Here is the issue: It seems that gruff kills rails/webrick whenever it’s used on win32. I installed gruff per instructions and it seems to be working. The sample controller generates a nice grpah with send\_data and all. The issue started once I try to use any other controller/template. Once a gruff graph gets generated and sent to the browser any SUBSEQUENT requests to other controllers fail with weird compile errors. For instance: Showing app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml where line #5 raised: compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:5: Invalid char `\001’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:6: parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " Show ID\n" ^ Extracted source (around line #5): 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: Trace of template inclusion: /app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml RAILS\_ROOT: ./script/…/config/… Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace #{RAILS\_ROOT}/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:6:in `compile_template' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/admin/show_management_controller.rb:12:in `index’ A quick restart of webrick fixes the issue until I generate another graph that is ☹ Thanks Rafael * * * Rails mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) | Show Name | Show ID | Location | Action | | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/3 "2006-05-03T18:56:47Z")
Hello Rafael, > Showing app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml where line #5 raised: > > compile error > ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:5: > Invalid char `\001’ in expression > ./script/…/config/…/app/views/admin/show\_management/list\_shows.rhtml:6: > parse error, unexpected $, expecting kEND > \_erbout.concat " > > Show ID\n" Try to check whether it’s a tabulation pb. Suppress (or replace with spaces) any tabs in your list\_shows.rhtml file. ``` -- Jean-François. ``` ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/4 "2006-05-03T18:56:48Z")
On Apr 30, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Jean-François wrote: > > issue started once I try to use any other controller/template. Once a > > Invalid char `\001’ in expression > > – ``` Yup that expecting kEND error on windows is a know issue. If you ``` have any tab chars in your view files they will cause this error. Make sure to only use spaces and you will be fine. -Ezra\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Rails mailing list removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/5 "2006-05-03T18:56:49Z")
Is Gruff using RMagick and you use ruby 1.8.4 under windows ? If that is the case, then that is the reason for your problems … ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/6 "2006-05-03T18:56:56Z")
yes, use minimagick (might require quite a lot of customization for gruff). If you do it, plese post it ---
**Author:** ![maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@maunzinha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maunzinha)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-gruff-is-killing-me/59310/7 "2006-05-03T18:56:52Z")
yep, Ruby 1.8.4 + Rmagick installed from local gem (RMagick-win32-1.9.2-mswin32.gem) I did some digging since the email, and it looks like it’s Rmagick issue. For instance in IRB require ‘rmagick’ errors out with: undefined method `assoc' for class`Magick::ImageList’ and require\_gem ‘rmagick’ complains about not being able to find the gem. Any known resolutions to this issue? Rafael