This really just happened to me. Really. I know I produced some April Fools jokes yesterday, but that was yesterday. This is real.
I created this Ruby script in TextMate:
s = "wackamole" puts s
I ran it, and the RubyMate output window displayed:
woe
Weird, eh? And it is part of a longer story; the string "wag wag" was being displayed as "w w", and the string "ruff ruff" was being displayed as empty. (Never mind why I was testing those strings.)
I quit TextMate, restarted my computer, and everything is back to normal. But would anyone like to suggest a cause for what happened? Cosmic rays? Belated April Fools day easter-egg-type joke?? The conficker virus??? Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? m.
PS The problem was presumably with TextMate, not with ruby, because using the Terminal to run the same script (as a saved text file) using the "ruby" command worked just fine.
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
This really just happened to me. Really. I know I produced some April Fools jokes yesterday, but that was yesterday. This is real.
I created this Ruby script in TextMate:
s = "wackamole" puts s
I ran it, and the RubyMate output window displayed:
woe
Weird, eh? And it is part of a longer story; the string "wag wag" was being displayed as "w w", and the string "ruff ruff" was being displayed as empty. (Never mind why I was testing those strings.)
I quit TextMate, restarted my computer, and everything is back to normal. But would anyone like to suggest a cause for what happened? Cosmic rays? Belated April Fools day easter-egg-type joke?? The conficker virus??? Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? m.
It could have been a WebKit bug… WebKit is used to render the html output window, and it has been known to behave strangely from time to time. Another possibility is that your font caches had become corrupted. Either of these problem could have been corrected be a reboot.
Alex Ross wrote:
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
I created this Ruby script in TextMate:
s = "wackamole" puts s
I ran it, and the RubyMate output window displayed:
woe
Another possibility is that your font caches had become corrupted.
Didn't someone once have a problem where their font cache was substituting the "7" glyph for the "9" character, or some such thing? It showed up in some calculations, and it took a lot of digging to discover that it was a font problem, not a math problem.
On 4/2/09 12:44 PM, in article 7F36DBCB-519A-43DF-8B9C-D15814DDA598@rosiba.com, "Alex Ross" tm-alex@rosiba.com wrote:
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
This really just happened to me. Really. I know I produced some April Fools jokes yesterday, but that was yesterday. This is real.
I created this Ruby script in TextMate:
s = "wackamole" puts s
I ran it, and the RubyMate output window displayed:
woe
Weird, eh? And it is part of a longer story; the string "wag wag" was being displayed as "w w", and the string "ruff ruff" was being displayed as empty. (Never mind why I was testing those strings.)
I quit TextMate, restarted my computer, and everything is back to normal. But would anyone like to suggest a cause for what happened? Cosmic rays? Belated April Fools day easter-egg-type joke?? The conficker virus??? Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? m.
It could have been a WebKit bug WebKit is used to render the html output window, and it has been known to behave strangely from time to time. Another possibility is that your font caches had become corrupted. Either of these problem could have been corrected be a reboot.
Quite sensible suggestions, really. Thanks!
The curious thing is that later in the day TextMate began crashing on a different machine! The crashes *did* seem to be a font problem. Restarting seemed to help there, too. m.
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