REXML::Formatters - where do they come from?

Rails
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This is driving me nuts - the Ruby docs mention
REXML::Formatters::Default, REXML::Formatters::Transitive, and
REXML::Formatters::Pretty. Documentation all over the web talks about
using these to format REXML::Documents. But nothing I can find
anywhere mentions where this Formatters package is supposed to come
from, and I’ve looked at 6 different machines with recent Ruby
installations (from 1.8.3 to 1.8.6), several of which aren’t mine, and
not a single one of them has this package.

I give up. How on earth are you supposed to get these? Where do they
come from, and why don’t I (or anyone I directly know) have them?

Thanks,
Bill

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On Nov 27, 2007 3:54 PM, Bill K. [email protected] wrote:

I give up. How on earth are you supposed to get these? Where do they
come from, and why don’t I (or anyone I directly know) have them?

I have /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml. I compiled my Ruby from source.
I can only assume that’s how I got it.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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On Nov 27, 5:00 pm, “Greg D.” [email protected] wrote:

I have /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml. I compiled my Ruby from source.
I can only assume that’s how I got it.

But do you have /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters?

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On Nov 27, 2007 4:27 PM, Bill K. [email protected] wrote:

But do you have /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters?

Yes.

ls -lavh /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters

total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 7 11:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Nov 7 11:09 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2.8K Jul 29 21:26 default.rb
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4.4K Jul 29 21:26 pretty.rb
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 29 21:26 transitive.rb

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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On Nov 27, 2007 4:44 PM, Greg D. [email protected] wrote:

-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4.4K Jul 29 21:26 pretty.rb
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 29 21:26 transitive.rb

I just checked another machine where I compiled Ruby from source and
it’s all there too.

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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Okay, I’ve re-installed Ruby by compiling from source. I still don’t
have rexml/formatters. Before trying that, I tried “port install rb-
rexml” since I’d installed Ruby from ports (I’m on OS X, Leopard);
that didn’t make rexml/formatters appear, either.

What the heck is going on? What’s the secret handshake to get rexml/
formatters installed? Anyone?

-Bill

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Interesting. I guess, then, the answer is likely to re-install Ruby by
compiling from source.

I can’t for the life of me imagine why other options leave this out. I
installed Ruby via ports on my Mac. I’m not sure how the Linux and
Solaris boxes had it installed. One of the hosts I checked that
doesn’t have them is a Joyent host. Bizarre.

Thanks, guys.

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I have a Fedora production server, as well as my local machine. Both
do not have rexml/formatters either.

Very frustrating,
-j.

On Nov 27, 10:28 pm, Peter De jong [email protected]

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Hi Bill,

Checked in out on my machine and NO rexml/formatters.
Macbook with 10.4.10 and ruby 1.8. compiled from source.
So it is not on OS X maybe?

Cheers

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Oh, my local machine is Mac OS X Tiger, compiled Ruby from source…

Mac OS X --> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-darwin8.9.1]
Fedora --> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-linux]