# Starling problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starling-problem/163905>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 26, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starling-problem/163905 "2009-03-26T01:13:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![florian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@florian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/florian)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starling-problem/163905/1 "2009-03-26T01:13:16Z")

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Hi,  
installed starling on OS-X (starling (0.9.8), ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11  
patchlevel 72)) , and am getting some weird exceptions when running it  
out of the box. Has anyone seen similar problems?

Thanks,  
Florian

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\> require ‘starling’  
=\> true  
irb(main):003:0\> starling = Starling.new(‘127.0.0.1:22122’)  
=\> \<MemCache: 1 servers, ns: nil, ro: false\>  
irb(main):004:0\> starling.set(‘my\_queue’, 12345)  
TypeError: can’t dup NilClass  
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starling-0.9.8/lib/starling.rb:  
94:in `dup' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starling-0.9.8/lib/starling.rb: 94:in`get\_server\_for\_key’  
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.6.5/lib/  
memcache.rb:689:in `request_setup' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.6.5/lib/ memcache.rb:658:in`with\_server’  
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/memcache-client-1.6.5/lib/  
memcache.rb:303:in `set' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starling-0.9.8/lib/starling.rb: 34:in`set’  
from (irb):4  
irb(main):005:0\> %

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**Author:** ![florian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@florian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/florian)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starling-problem/163905/2 "2009-03-26T01:50:08Z")

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You should try the later Starling-starling gem found here

> **[GitHub - starling/starling: Starling Message Queue - please contribute if you...](https://github.com/starling/starling/tree/master)**
>
> master