Upgrade to Ruby 1.8.6 broke my app

I recently upgraded my Windows dev machine to Ruby 1.8.6 p287 Rails
2.3.2, my previous setup was Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 2.1. My app was
running fine until I upgraded Ruby. Here’s the error stack

Processing TabController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-05-09 21:05:30)
[GET]
Session ID: 0356258fa1b9339a1aca32d4df27dcae
Parameters: {“action”=>“index”, “controller”=>“tab”}
?[4;36;1mSQL (0.000000)?[0m ?[0;1mSET NAMES ‘utf8’?[0m
?[4;35;1mEntry Columns (0.015000)?[0m ?[0mSHOW FIELDS FROM
entries?[0m
?[4;36;1mEntry Indexes (0.016000)?[0m ?[0;1mSHOW KEYS FROM
entries?[0m
?[4;35;1mSQL (0.000000)?[0m ?[0mSELECT count(*) AS count_all FROM
entries OR
DER BY entries.created_at DESC ?[0m
?[4;36;1mEntry Load (0.000000)?[0m ?[0;1mSELECT * FROM entries ORDER
BY entr
ies.created_at DESC LIMIT 0, 10?[0m

NoMethodError (private method gsub' called for 140:Fixnum): c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:292:innormalize’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:1085:in []=' /app/controllers/application.rb:57:inresize_videos’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:891:in each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/xpath.rb:53:ineach’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:891:in each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:393:ineach_element’
/app/controllers/application.rb:56:in resize_videos' /vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/paginated_collection.rb:24:i neach’
/vendor/plugins/will_paginate/lib/will_paginate/paginated_collection.rb:24:i
n each' /app/controllers/application.rb:54:inresize_videos’
/app/controllers/tab_controller.rb:34:in index' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1095:insend’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1095:in
perform_acti on_without_filters' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:632:incall_filte
r’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:638:in
call_filte r' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:438:incall’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:637:in
call_filte r' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:619:inperform_ac
tion_without_benchmark’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:66:in
perfor m_action_without_rescue' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:inmeasure’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:66:in
perfor m_action_without_rescue' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:83:inperform_acti
on’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:430:in send' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:430:inprocess_witho
ut_filters’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:624:in
process_wi thout_session_management_support' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:114:inprocess’
/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:330:in
process' /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:41:indispatch’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:78
:in process' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76 :insynchronize’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:76
:in process' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:618:in
process_client’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in
each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in
process_client’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in
run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in
initialize’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in
new' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in
run’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in
initialize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in
new’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in
run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/configurato r.rb:271:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/configurato
r.rb:270:in each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/configurato r.rb:270:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/bin/mongrel_rails:127:i
n run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/lib/mongrel/command.rb: 211:inrun’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1-mswin32/bin/mongrel_rails:243
/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in
`load’

/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:in

`load’

/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:343:in

new_c onstants_in' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:489:inload’

/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb:60
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in

gem_origina l_require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire’
/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in
requi re' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:343:innew_c
onstants_in’
/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in
requi re' /vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:39 script/server:3:inrequire’
script/server:3

Rendering
./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/te
mplates/rescues/layout.rhtml (500 Internal Error)

Does anyone know what caused the error? I’m going to dig in but hoping
for a quick answer if someone already encountered this problem. Thanks.

On May 10, 5:21 pm, Cali W. [email protected]
wrote:

I recently upgraded my Windows dev machine to Ruby 1.8.6 p287 Rails
2.3.2, my previous setup was Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 2.1. My app was
running fine until I upgraded Ruby. Here’s the error stack

NoMethodError (private method gsub' called for 140:Fixnum): c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:292:in normalize’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:1085:in []=' /app/controllers/application.rb:57:in resize_videos’

Might there be something interesting in this part of your app ?

Fred

Frederick C. wrote:

On May 10, 5:21�pm, Cali W. [email protected]
wrote:

I recently upgraded my Windows dev machine to Ruby 1.8.6 p287 Rails
2.3.2, my previous setup was Ruby 1.8.5 and Rails 2.1. My app was
running fine until I upgraded Ruby. Here’s the error stack

NoMethodError (private method gsub' called for 140:Fixnum): � � c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:292:in normalize’
� � c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:1085:in []=' � � /app/controllers/application.rb:57:in resize_videos’

Might there be something interesting in this part of your app ?

Fred

Remember this is the exact same code that runs fine with Ruby 1.8.5 with
Rails 2.3.2. it works fine if I switch the Ruby environment variable to
1.8.5. So either 1.8.6 fixed a bug that didn’t manifest in 1.8.5 or
changed the API causing it to break.

On May 10, 9:32 pm, Cali W. [email protected]
wrote:

Remember this is the exact same code that runs fine with Ruby 1.8.5 with
Rails 2.3.2. it works fine if I switch the Ruby environment variable to
1.8.5. So either 1.8.6 fixed a bug that didn’t manifest in 1.8.5 or
changed the API causing it to break.

Entirely possible. Either way the closest bit of app code that is
yours in the stack trace is still interesting.

Fred