Hey,
I ran into an annoying bug while trying to use the Ferret gem:
C:\Documents and Settings\Ilya>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2006-04-14) [i386-mswin32]
C:\Documents and Settings\Ilya>gem list --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
ferret (0.10.6)
Ruby indexing library.
…
C:\Documents and Settings\Ilya>irb
irb(main):001:0> “\t\tabcd”.dump
=> “"\t\tabcd"”
irb(main):002:0> require ‘ferret’
=> true
irb(main):003:0> “\t\tabcd”.dump
=> “" abcd"\000\000”
irb(main):004:0>
Something breaks in ruby after I include ferret and rails collapses on
the spot. The templating engine falls down and starts complaining about
weird characters in my .rhtml files.
More info on this and similar issues:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/82204#new
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3837&group_id=12&atid=133
I’ve tried this on two different computers, with 1.8.4.20, 1.8.5… and
even 1.8.2, all yielding the same results. (Yes, I also tried different
versions of the ferret gem). Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Ilya