Digest::Base problem

[Brian Candler]

Just one thing to check: you don't happen to have a file called
"digest.rb" lying around in the current directory?

It's tempting when writing a test program to exercise the digest library
to call it "digest.rb". But then "require 'digest'" will fail because it
will load the wrong file

One way to diagnose this is to find digest.so on your system (e.g.
"locate digest.so") and then require it with a full path: e.g.

irb(main):001:0> require '/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/digest.so'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Digest::Base
=> Digest::Base

 

[Martin Hansen]

Brian Candler wrote in post #998468:

Just one thing to check: you don't happen to have a file called
"digest.rb" lying around in the current directory?

aaaaaaargh!

AAAAAAAARGH!!!


Yes! That's it!!! $RUBYLIB includes a dir with another digest.rb.

So - how can avoid this conflict? I prefer not to rename the file if
avoidable.


(BIG THANKS)


Martin

 

[Martin Hansen]

OK, this comes down to my code being badly organized. I will get right
at it.

Case closed.


BIG THANKS to all you helpers!


(time to help myself)


Cheers,



Martin