# Odd problem involving rubygems / classifier and Windows

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**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/odd-problem-involving-rubygems-classifier-and-windows/94439 "2006-05-03T19:08:45Z")\
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Dear all,

I am experiencing a strange error when calling two Ruby programs  
which work fine when called alone or from different \*.rb files.

In a first Ruby method, I call the summarization method  
script from \_[http://classifier.rufy.com/\_](http://classifier.rufy.com/_) ([http://classifier.rufy.com/](http://classifier.rufy.com/))  
to  
summarize a text (or rather,  
to reduce the number of sentences in it to some ratio), and later to  
output  
the result in an RTF file, while coloring those sentences in black which  
are  
kept, and coloring those sentences that are discarded in red.  
This actually works fine.

Now, in the discarding process, the red and the black sentences  
generally are not neatly separated, by there is, say, one sentence in  
black,  
followed  
by three sentences in red, and then two sentences in red etc.  
Now, for a reader who only gets the remaining, black sentences,  
words like ‘there’,‘she’,‘it’, etc. may have no meaning if the place or  
person one is talking about is actually in one of the discarded  
sentences  
before that  
sentence.

To fix this, I call a parts-of-speech tagger as an external program in  
Windows  
using the ‘system’ command. (A parts of speech tagger takes every  
word form an English text file and decides whether it is a noun, a verb  
etc.)  
I do this to find nouns that could be referred to as  
‘he’,‘she’,‘hers’,‘it’,  
‘there’ etc.

Both scripts work on texts that are read in from files.  
But when I combine them in one .rb file,

require “rubygems”  
require ‘classifier’

class String  
def text\_summ  
# call summary from classifier  
end  
def tag\_it(language,output\_file) # call external tagging program  
tag\_command=‘/c/axelhome/lang/mytagger/bin/tag-’ + language + '.bat ’ +  
self

- ’ ’ + output\_file  
system(tag\_command)  
end  
end

# color text for discarding

“a\_too\_long\_text.txt”.text\_summ(30,‘a\_30\_percent\_as\_long\_text.rtf’)

# tag text for parts of speech

‘a\_30\_percent\_as\_long\_text.rtf’.tag\_it(‘english’,‘output\_file.txt’) ,

I get the following set of errors :

> 3 [main] ruby 3948 C:\cygwin\ur\local\bin\ruby.exe : \*\*\* fatal error:  
> unable to remap  
> C:\cygwin\usr\local\lib\ruby\1.8\i-386-cygwin\opensll.so to same address  
> as parent  
> (0x2870000) != 0x28B0000  
> 108726 [main] ruby 280: child\_copy: loaded dll child copy failed  
> 0x63096000…0x630A2E70,  
> done 0, windows pid 5468565, Win32 error 5.

These lines keep returning, with some differences in the windows pid  
numbers.

What is going on here? What could be done to fix it ?

Thank you very much,

Best regards,  
Axel