# Textmate Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 17, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684 "2006-06-17T16:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684/1 "2006-06-17T16:23:09Z")
Has anyone come across this problem… I created some Ruby files in Textmate on my Mac - and everything works fine. However, when I run those files on a Windows machine I get e.g. compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:2: Invalid char `\002' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:4: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND _erbout.concat " "x; _erbout.concat((render :partial=>"record_form").to_s); _erbout.concat "\n" ^ ./script/../config/../app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:4: Invalid char`\002’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:8: Invalid char `\002’ in expression Now this seems to be a problem that Textmate created as files created with Rad Rails on the Mac run fine on Windows. This seems to be a tab character/encoding/carriage return issue. I’ve seen similar symptoms talked about elsewhere but no clear resolution. Basically I am regretting spending 39 Euros on a text editor that seems to make my Rails project Mac only (an interesting polemic but frustrating for practical real life scenarios where Windows is a necessary evil…) Anyone got any ideas on how to easily resolve this problem? Sean ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684/2 "2006-06-17T16:32:50Z")
On 6/17/06, Sean B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Has anyone come across this problem… I created some Ruby files in Textmate > on my Mac - and everything works fine. However, when I run those files on a > Windows machine I get e.g. Have you tried sending an email to Macromates? Or asking on the TextMate mailing list? Or #textmate irc chat channel? ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684/3 "2006-06-17T16:48:17Z")
On 6/17/06, Sean B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I didn’t know they had their own mailing list - I’ll have a look now. > Thanks. No problem. Allan (the developer) is very active on it, you may get a response directly from him 🙂 [http://macromates.com/community](http://macromates.com/community) ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684/4 "2006-06-17T16:35:59Z")
I didn’t know they had their own mailing list - I’ll have a look now. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-madness/63684/5 "2006-06-18T00:09:55Z")
The problem is not just tabs/carriage returns and such, it seems to also be file format. Here is how I solved it. I just opened all (yup _ALL_) the files on my Windows box in TextPad, changed the file format dropdown from “unix” to “pc” and then saved them. I think that there are commercial products that do this but I didn’t check them out – Greg * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Sean B. Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:23 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Rails] Textmate Madness Has anyone come across this problem… I created some Ruby files in Textmate on my Mac - and everything works fine. However, when I run those files on a Windows machine I get e.g. compile error ./script/…/config/…/app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:2: Invalid char `\002’ in expression ./script/…/config/…/app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:4: parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kEND \_erbout.concat " "x; \_erbout.concat((render :partial=\>“record\_form”).to\_s); \_erbout.concat “\n” ``` ^ ``` ./script/…/config/…/app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:4: Invalid char `\002' in expression ./script/../config/../app/views/station/consumption/new.rhtml:8: Invalid char `\002’ in expression Now this seems to be a problem that Textmate created as files created with Rad Rails on the Mac run fine on Windows. This seems to be a tab character/encoding/carriage return issue. I’ve seen similar symptoms talked about elsewhere but no clear resolution. Basically I am regretting spending 39 Euros on a text editor that seems to make my Rails project Mac only (an interesting polemic but frustrating for practical real life scenarios where Windows is a necessary evil…) Anyone got any ideas on how to easily resolve this problem? Sean – No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 6/16/2006