Rails - Mar 2006 - Illegal char \002? Need to restart Rails to see changes?

Hi all,

I''m developing an app on a home Windows computer and using 
SVN/Capistrano to deploy to a Linux server.  I''m encountering some 
bizarre behavior that I think has something to do with Linux and Windows 
text file types, but I''m not sure.

What''s happening is that, whenever I edit my view files and reload the 
page in my local browser, I see errors saying I have Syntax errors and 
illegal characters in my files.  There''s never anything obvious (to me)
wrong with the file, but if I Ctrl-C out of WEBrick and restart it, the 
file works fine.  Until the next time I edit it.

Here''s an example, from a change to a partial template.  It was working
properly, and the only change I made was to add
"<p>Hi</p>" to the top.
Then I refreshed the page in the browser and got this:

 SyntaxError in Houses#list

Showing app/views/houses/_house.rhtml where line #3 raised:

compile error
./script/../config/../app/views/houses/_house.rhtml:3: parse error, 
unexpected $, expecting kEND
_erbout.concat "	<h3 class=\"house_title\">"
                	                            ^

Extracted source (around line #3):

1: <p>Hi</p>
2: <div class="house">
3: 	<h3 class="house_title"><%= link_to_unless_current
h(house.address),
:action => ''show'', :id => house.id %></h3>
4: 	<%= link_to_unless_current
image_tag("/images/houses/small/front",
:size => ''150x100''), :action =>
''show'', :id => house.id %>
5: 	<%= "<div
id=''description_#{house.id}''>" %>
6: 	<ul class="address">


---

This behavior started happening when I added the "file_column" plugin
to
my app, but I''m not sure what it has to do with it.

It''s been really frustrating getting SVN and Capistrano set up and now 
I''m finally ready to just start working on the actual behavior of my 
app, I find all these problems that are beyond the scope of my 
understanding.  I''ve rebuilt my app half a dozen times today, starting 
from scratch with fresh Rails installs and incrementally copying files 
in and still I can''t squash these problems.

Help!

Jeff

P.S. I kinda feel like I''ve been monopolizing this list, posting quite
a
few requests for help over the last few days.  I apologize if that''s
the
case, but all the responses I''ve gotten have helped me immensely, so I 
keep coming back :)

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Jeff Coleman wrote:
> I''m developing an app on a home Windows computer and using 
> SVN/Capistrano to deploy to a Linux server.  I''m encountering some
> bizarre behavior that I think has something to do with Linux and Windows 
> text file types, but I''m not sure.
> 
> What''s happening is that, whenever I edit my view files and reload
the
> page in my local browser, I see errors saying I have Syntax errors and 
> illegal characters in my files.  There''s never anything obvious
(to me)
> wrong with the file, but if I Ctrl-C out of WEBrick and restart it, the 
> file works fine.  Until the next time I edit it.
> 
> Here''s an example, from a change to a partial template.  It was
working
> properly, and the only change I made was to add
"<p>Hi</p>" to the top.
> Then I refreshed the page in the browser and got this:
> 
>  SyntaxError in Houses#list
> 
> Showing app/views/houses/_house.rhtml where line #3 raised:
> 
> compile error
> ./script/../config/../app/views/houses/_house.rhtml:3: parse error, 
> unexpected $, expecting kEND
> _erbout.concat "	<h3 class=\"house_title\">"
>                 	                            ^
> 
> Extracted source (around line #3):
> 
> 1: <p>Hi</p>
> 2: <div class="house">
> 3: 	<h3 class="house_title"><%= link_to_unless_current
h(house.address),
> :action => ''show'', :id => house.id %></h3>
> 4: 	<%= link_to_unless_current
image_tag("/images/houses/small/front",
> :size => ''150x100''), :action =>
''show'', :id => house.id %>
> 5: 	<%= "<div
id=''description_#{house.id}''>" %>
> 6: 	<ul class="address">
Many people are reporting errors of this type on Windows. The reports 
claim that by replacing tabs with spaces in the source file that the 
problems are resolved.

HTH

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Ray

How odd.  That seemed to do it, for that file at least.  What on earth 
would be at the bottom of a bug like that?

Ray Baxter wrote:
> Jeff Coleman wrote:
> 
>> 
>> unexpected $, expecting kEND
>> :size => ''150x100''), :action =>
''show'', :id => house.id %>
>> 5: 	<%= "<div
id=''description_#{house.id}''>" %>
>> 6: 	<ul class="address">
> 
> Many people are reporting errors of this type on Windows. The reports
> claim that by replacing tabs with spaces in the source file that the
> problems are resolved.
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> 
> Ray

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Found some bug reports indicating that RMagick changes the method 
String.dump, which is also used in the ERB interpreter.  I am indeed 
using RMagick so I have no doubt that''s the culprit.

Thanks again, Ray.

Jeff

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This issue is a Ruby 1.8.4 / Windows issue I believe.

On 3/30/06, Jeff Coleman <progressions@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Found some bug reports indicating that RMagick changes the method
> String.dump, which is also used in the ERB interpreter.  I am indeed
> using RMagick so I have no doubt that''s the culprit.
>
> Thanks again, Ray.
>
> Jeff
>
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Ben Reubenstein wrote:
> On 3/30/06, Jeff Coleman <progressions@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Found some bug reports indicating that RMagick changes the method
>> String.dump, which is also used in the ERB interpreter.  I am indeed
>> using RMagick so I have no doubt that''s the culprit.
>>
>> Thanks again, Ray.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
 > This issue is a Ruby 1.8.4 / Windows issue I believe.
 >

I have the same issue and downgraded back to 1.8.2 to get rid of it.

Bit of a pain. Where''s my Mac ;o)

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Richard Livsey wrote:
> Ben Reubenstein wrote:
>> On 3/30/06, Jeff Coleman <progressions@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Found some bug reports indicating that RMagick changes the method
>>> String.dump, which is also used in the ERB interpreter.  I am
indeed
>>> using RMagick so I have no doubt that''s the culprit.
>>>
>>> Thanks again, Ray.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>  > This issue is a Ruby 1.8.4 / Windows issue I believe.
>  >
> 
> I have the same issue and downgraded back to 1.8.2 to get rid of it.
> 
> Bit of a pain. Where''s my Mac ;o)
Darn, but to run Rails 1.1 I''d need to stick with 1.8.4, right?

Jeff

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Jeff Coleman wrote:
> Richard Livsey wrote:
>>
>> I have the same issue and downgraded back to 1.8.2 to get rid of it.
>>
>> Bit of a pain. Where''s my Mac ;o)
> 
> Darn, but to run Rails 1.1 I''d need to stick with 1.8.4, right?
> 
> Jeff
> 
I''m running edge rails quite happily on 1.8.2

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To quote DHH:

"If you''re on Ruby 1.8.2 with Windows, though, you''ll
want to upgrade
to the 1.8.4 (or the script/console will fail). And even if you''re on
another platform, it''s a good idea to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4. We still
support 1.8.2, but might not in the next major release. So may as well
get the upgrading with over with now."

On 3/30/06, Richard Livsey <richard@livsey.org>
wrote:
> Jeff Coleman wrote:
> > Richard Livsey wrote:
> >>
> >> I have the same issue and downgraded back to 1.8.2 to get rid of
it.
> >>
> >> Bit of a pain. Where''s my Mac ;o)
> >
> > Darn, but to run Rails 1.1 I''d need to stick with 1.8.4,
right?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
> I''m running edge rails quite happily on 1.8.2
>
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Ben Reubenstein wrote:
> To quote DHH:
> 
> "If you''re on Ruby 1.8.2 with Windows, though,
you''ll want to upgrade
> to the 1.8.4 (or the script/console will fail). And even if you''re
on
> another platform, it''s a good idea to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4. We
still
> support 1.8.2, but might not in the next major release. So may as well
> get the upgrading with over with now."
> 
> On 3/30/06, Richard Livsey <richard@livsey.org> wrote:
>> >
>>
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> Ben Reubenstein
> http://www.benr75.com
Hopefully by the time it becomes an issue with the next Rails release, 
RMagick might be updated to fix the current issue.

Jeff

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Ben Reubenstein wrote:
> To quote DHH:
> 
> "If you''re on Ruby 1.8.2 with Windows, though,
you''ll want to upgrade
> to the 1.8.4 (or the script/console will fail). And even if you''re
on
> another platform, it''s a good idea to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4. We
still
> support 1.8.2, but might not in the next major release. So may as well
> get the upgrading with over with now."
I tried to upgrade. Things broke so I downgraded again.

Once RMagick etc work I''ll happily upgrade. Until that point the only 
thing so far which doesn''t work is script/console and that''s
easy to patch.

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I think its got nothing to do with RMagick but with copying code.
Had the same problem with code copied from mail.
Got an error but nothing showed up until I used ''view''
''show invisibles''
in TextMate
Funny characters showed up that I deleted and all was well.
Now the code I copied was from someone on windows.

I am running on a mini with Rails 1.1 and file_column and rmagick and 
very happy !!!

Hope this helps

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