Bug #2555: "case n when *VALID" Broken in Ruby 1.8.8; affects Ruby on Rails

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.8.8dev (2010-01-01 revision 26226) [x86_64-linux]

[rubys (Sam Ruby)]

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This affects uses of the "builder" gem.

Related commits:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24695
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=25658

Results when run against selected versions of 1.8.8:

ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-08-26 revision 24669) [x86_64-linux]
a
valid
valid

ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-08-26 revision 24695) [x86_64-linux]
*
INVALID
INVALID

ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-11-05 revision 25657) [x86_64-linux]
*
INVALID
INVALID

ruby 1.8.8dev (2009-11-05 revision 25658) [x86_64-linux]
*
valid
INVALID
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[rubys (Sam Ruby)]

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I should have mentioned that the attachment is the test case.
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[bitsweat (Jeremy Daer)]

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Duplicates #2551, #2468.
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[knu (Akinori MUSHA)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

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This issue was solved with changeset r26589.
Romulo, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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[rubys (Sam Ruby)]

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The test case provided still fails.

As near as I can tell, changeset r26589 only contains test cases, but no changes to Ruby itself.

Please reopen this bug.
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[knu (Akinori MUSHA)]

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I never meant to close this.

I wish "ref [Bug #...]" would have been parsed just like "cf: [Bug #...]".

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[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

• Category set to core
• Status changed from Closed to Open

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[rubys (Sam Ruby)]

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http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/revision/ruby-18?rev=26737 reverts http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=24695 and addresses this problem. This issue can be closed at this time.
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

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I wish "ref [Bug #...]" would have been parsed just like "cf: [Bug #...]".
#... may change when the ticket moves from bug to backport or something.
So writing ref #... is correct.
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