Rails - Jan 2006 - problem with ruby gem activate when trying to run actionpack tests

Hi There,

so I worked out what I should be doing to try and contribute code to
rails (I''m currently working on patches for collection_select and
auto_link).

I''m following the instructions here:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/

and have checked out actionpack. Trying to run the actionpack tests I
get this error:

D:\User\Code\ruby\actionpack\test>ruby controller/base_test.rb
d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:144:in `activate'':
can''t
activate act
ivesupport (= 1.2.3), already activated activesupport-1.2.4]
(Gem::Exception)
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:162:in `activate''
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:161:in `each''
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:161:in `activate''
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:23:in `re
quire''
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.4/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:214:in `require''
from ./controller/../abstract_unit.rb:7
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `re
quire__''
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `re
quire''
from controller/base_test.rb:1

Rails itself runs fine for me. I''ve been looking for information on the
web about what it means to "activate" a rubygem, but have been
singularly unsuccessful. I see other people encountering these kinds of
problems on this list, but as yet I have not seen any information about
what causes these problems.

I would love to work out how to fix this, and test the fixes I have.

Many thanks in advance.

CHEERS> SAM

Sam Joseph wrote:
>So I was just having some trouble with auto_link and markdown.
>
>Specfically auto_link was failing to handle urls with tildas in them (~)
>e.g.
>
>http://www.hawaii.edu/~name/index.html
>
>and markdown couldn''t handle an acute accent (`) e.g.
>
>Hawai`i
>
>It seems that acute accents (or backticks) in Markdown signify code
>segments, and it seems there''s an open ticket for this:
>
>http://www.deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth/ticket/24
>
>However, regarding auto_link I found where I could fix this in
>actionpack-1.11.0\lib\action_view\helpersTextHelper.rb
>
>changing the following line:
>
>([\w]+[=?&\/.-]?)* # url segment
>to this
>
>([\w~]+[=?&\/.-]?)* # url segment
>
>I can see that there are a number of tickets relating to auto_link:
>
>http://dev.rubyonrails.org/search?q=auto_link&wiki=on&changeset=on&ticket=on
>
>However I am unclear how to submit this as a fix. Any guidance would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>I''d also appreciate any pointers on how to run the TextHelper tests
to
>ensure I haven''t broken anything else
>