# Ruby crashes my boss' desktop **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 13, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-crashes-my-boss-desktop/79242 "2006-12-13T16:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bitsmith)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-crashes-my-boss-desktop/79242/1 "2006-12-13T16:04:52Z")
To all…my ruby program developed in v182.1 runs to completion on my Win2k srvcpak4 but crashes on my boss’ Win2k srvpak2 machine with Ruby v184 ntuser.dat file is updated after a message saying that ruby is logging the error but, i can’t see it (under notepad) because it’s locked out by the system process…there are no ‘events’ logged either…any suggestions? which version of Ruby is rock solid 182 or 184 or 185 should i upgrade boss’ desktop to srvc pak 4 remember i’m trying to IMPRESS MY BOSS about ruby!!! ---
**Author:** ![bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bitsmith)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-crashes-my-boss-desktop/79242/2 "2006-12-13T16:46:42Z")
On 12/13/06, Dave R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > To all…my ruby program developed in v182.1 > runs to completion on my Win2k srvcpak4 > but crashes on my boss’ Win2k srvpak2 machine with Ruby v184 > ntuser.dat file is updated after a message saying that ruby is logging > the error but, i can’t see it (under notepad) because it’s > locked out by the system process…there are no ‘events’ logged > either…any suggestions? which version of Ruby is rock solid > 182 or 184 or 185 should i upgrade boss’ desktop to srvc pak 4 > remember i’m trying to IMPRESS MY BOSS about ruby!!! There were some changes between the versions. For 1.8.4 184-20.exe is the safest, or you can try 185-21.exe. 1.8.4 seems safer for me. Then, try running your program on your computer with the very version your boss has installed. The crash should not happen anyways… what are you doing, where did it crash? Are you using OLE? WinAPI? other low level calls? any own extensions? XML? If you cannot determine the reason yourself, and you can share the code, try posting it here along with the exact error and ruby version. Maybe you might have a look at Release changes to see if there’s anything suspectible. ---
**Author:** ![bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bitsmith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bitsmith)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-crashes-my-boss-desktop/79242/3 "2006-12-13T17:53:07Z")
Jan S. wrote: > There were some changes between the versions. For 1.8.4 184-20.exe > is the safest, or you can try 185-21.exe. 1.8.4 seems safer for me. > > Then, try running your program on your computer with the very version > your boss has installed. > > The crash should not happen anyways… what are you doing, where did it > crash? > Are you using OLE? WinAPI? other low level calls? any own extensions? > XML? > > If you cannot determine the reason yourself, and you can share the code, > try > posting it here along with the exact error and ruby version. > > Maybe you might have a look at Release changes to see if there’s > anything suspectible. …i’m using OCI8 (oracle read-only selects) on my boss’ (an older version of OCi8 to boot!) v184 means 184.2 the stable version (i only use stable one-clik-installables) should i reinstall 1842 and the correct(latest) OCI8…? …dave