Comment 10 for bug 286567

On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Harald Sitter wrote:
> I attached a modified script, maybe it works better. I am not exaclty
> sure why it fails there.
>
> Anyhow the extras package is only necessary for the backup task. gsub!
> as well as everything else (besides the copy operation obviously ;-) is
> part of the core ruby modules, so I don't see how that could be the
> problem.

Sorry to not be able to report success, but I'm still getting an "undefined
method `gsub!' for nil:NilClass" error. Does nil:NilClass mean it doesn't know
the class of "line"? Sorry, I just don't know ruby at all, so I'm pretty
useless here.

For completeness, here are my ruby-related packages:
tim@diva:~$ dpkg -l *ruby* | grep ii
ii libbreakpoint-ruby1.8 0.5.1-2
Ruby library for adding breakpoints to Ruby
ii libcmdparse2-ruby1.8 2.0.2-2
Advanced command line parsing module support
ii libdaemons-ruby1.8 1.0.10-2
Ruby daemons library
ii liblog4r-ruby1.8 1.0.5-7
A logging library for Ruby
ii libmmap-ruby1.8 0.2.6-3
Ruby interface to manage memory-mapped file
ii libncurses-ruby1.8 1.1-3
ruby Extension for the ncurses C library
ii libopenssl-ruby1.8 1.8.7.72-1
OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.8
ii libreadline-ruby1.8 1.8.7.72-1
Readline interface for Ruby 1.8
ii libruby-extras 0.4ubuntu2
a bundle of additional libraries for Ruby
ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.72-1
Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8-extras 0.4ubuntu2
a bundle of additional libraries for Ruby 1.
ii libruby1.9 1.9.0.2-7
Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.9
ii ruby 4.2
An interpreter of object-oriented scripting
ii ruby1.8 1.8.7.72-1
Interpreter of object-oriented scripting lan
ii ruby1.9 1.9.0.2-7
Interpreter of object-oriented scripting lan
ii rubygems1.8 1.3.0~RC1really1.2.0-2ubuntu3
package management framework for Ruby librar

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> ** Attachment added: "migrateics.rb"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18773605/migrateics.rb