process.rb:30: undefined (?...) sequence: / (SyntaxError) about betty

[tiagobonetti]

Got same error here.
running: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i686-linux]

[pickhardt]

I think this is due to the comments in the regex (the line with todo). It happens in earlier versions of Ruby. It wasn't happening in the pull request that this came from, or on my computer, due to our versions of Ruby being newer.

Someone made a PR with a fix, and I merged it. So try pulling again.

[lpanebr]

pulled and tested master and dev branches. Got the same error but now on line 36 /process.rb:36

$ betty 
/home/lpanebr/Applications/betty/main.rb:6:in `require': /home/lpanebr/Applications/betty/lib/process.rb:36: undefined (?...) sequence: / (SyntaxError)
      (show|find|give|me|a|list|of|those|\s)*
      (?<all>all\s)?
      (?<my>my\s)?
      PROCESS(es)?
      (with|which|that|\s)*
      (for|process|\s)* (id\s(?<process_id>[0-9]+))?
      (for|belonging|belong|to|by|\s)* (user\s(?<user_id>\w+))?
      ((like|matching|with|pattern|containing|that|which|contain|\s)+ (?<pattern>\w+))?
    /
    from /home/lpanebr/Applications/betty/main.rb:6
    from /home/lpanebr/Applications/betty/main.rb:6:in `each'
    from /home/lpanebr/Applications/betty/main.rb:6

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]

[lpanebr]

installing ruby1.9.1 solved the issue. I would be nice to?

• add a requirements section in the readme, and
• checking for requirements in the install script

On ubuntu 12.04 I solved it by:

$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1
$ sudo update-alternatives --config ruby # when prompted select 1.9.1

[tiagobonetti]

ruby1.9.1 solved it on ubuntu 10.04.

[pannous]

requirement should be ruby 1.8, if a module needs higher ruby then it should give a warning instead of crashing. will be fixed ...