[Rubycocoa-talk] [patch] RubyCocoa apps don't run if the executable pathname contains whitespace

[Chris T. <ch...@m-...>]

Looks like a bug in Dir.glob in 1.6.8. The enclosed patch is against 
the /template directory only, I haven't checked the examples yet.

Although this seems to be fixed in 1.8.1, Panther includes a 1.6.8 
libruby.dylib. It would be nice to be able to distribute smaller 
applications by embedding the RubyCocoa framework and linking against 
libruby.dylib. Because libruby is part of the BSD subset of the system, 
this isn't really a guarantee the resulting app will work on a random 
end-user system or continue to work in the future -- but it's still 
convenient for ad-hoc applications.

Chris

irb(main):001:0> VERSION
=> "1.6.8"
irb(main):002:0> Dir.chdir "/Users/chris/Code/Whisper/Examples"
=> 0
irb(main):003:0> Dir.entries("XML Compiler")
=> [".", "..", "CVS", "Read Me.txt", "Resources", "Source", "XML 
Compiler Data", "XML Compiler.mcp"]
irb(main):004:0> Dir.glob("XML Compiler/*")
=> []
irb(main):005:0> Dir.entries("StringTableBuilder")
=> [".", "..", "CVS", "Read Me.txt", "Resources", "Source", 
"StringTableBuilder Data", "StringTableBuilder.mcp"]
irb(main):006:0> Dir.glob("StringTableBuilder/*")
=> ["StringTableBuilder/CVS", "StringTableBuilder/Read Me.txt", 
"StringTableBuilder/Resources", "StringTableBuilder/Source", 
"StringTableBuilder/StringTableBuilder Data", 
"StringTableBuilder/StringTableBuilder.mcp"]

Fixed in 1.8.1:

irb(main):002:0> VERSION
=> "1.8.1"
irb(main):003:0> Dir.chdir "/Users/chris/Code/Whisper/Examples"
=> 0
irb(main):004:0> Dir.entries("XML Compiler")
=> [".", "..", "CVS", "Read Me.txt", "Resources", "Source", "XML 
Compiler Data", "XML Compiler.mcp"]
irb(main):005:0> Dir.glob("XML Compiler/*")
=> ["XML Compiler/CVS", "XML Compiler/Read Me.txt", "XML 
Compiler/Resources", "XML Compiler/Source", "XML Compiler/XML Compiler 
Data", "XML Compiler/XML Compiler.mcp"]