# Ruby has lots of love?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 19, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309 "2009-07-19T04:12:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309/1 "2009-07-19T04:12:48Z")

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When I get errors in irb sometime, the outputs looks like this:

> > require ‘rmagick’  
> > LoadError: 126: The specified module could not be found. -  
> > c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.10.0-x86-mswin32/ext/RMagick2.so  
> > from  
> > c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.10.0-x86-mswin32/ext/RMagick2.so  
> > from  
> > c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:36:in  
> > `require' from c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.10.0-x86-mswin32/lib/rmagick.rb:11 from c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in`gem\_original\_require’  
> > from  
> > c:/ruby18/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:36:in  
> > `require’  
> > from (irb):2  
> > from ♥:0

That last line shows a little heart, if it doesn’t show up right in your  
email.  
Is that expected? Is it there to cheer me up?  
Thanks.  
=r

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309/2 "2009-07-19T04:31:39Z")

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Roger P. wrote:

> That last line shows a little heart, Is that expected? Is it there to cheer me up?

It sounds like an encoding problem. Try changing the encodig of  
whatever app is displaying the irb output.

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309/3 "2009-07-19T21:45:22Z")

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Hi,

Am Sonntag, 19. Jul 2009, 11:12:50 +0900 schrieb Roger P.:

> email.  
> This is Ctrl-C in cp850 encoding (see  
> [Codepage 850 – Wikipedia](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cp850)).  
> You can reproduce it by entering

puts “\x03”

Sorry, I cannot test this here because I do not run Windows on any  
machine.

Bertram

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309/4 "2009-07-20T15:31:22Z")

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> It sounds like an encoding problem. Try changing the encodig of  
> whatever app is displaying the irb output.

Hmm. The output is from vannila cmd.exe in doze. Not sure how to change  
it (and since it’s default, I’m thinking it’s not an encoding  
issue…but I dunno].  
=r

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-has-lots-of-love/172309/5 "2009-07-20T16:54:17Z")

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On 7/19/09, Bertram S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 19. Jul 2009, 11:12:50 +0900 schrieb Roger P.:
> 
> > That last line shows a little heart, if it doesn’t show up right in your  
> > email.
> 
> This is Ctrl-C in cp850 encoding (see [Codepage 850 – Wikipedia](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cp850)).

Whether its a heart or ^c, the real question would seem to be this:  
why does this strangely named ‘file’ show up in the backtrace at all?  
Surely such a bizarre name cannot be correct.