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When I try to "require", "load" or use rdoc on a .rb file in IRB I get
the error

"SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):5: unknown regexp options - gary
from (irb):5"


Also, i'm using the preloaded irb on my mac which uses ">>" instead of
"irb(main):002:0>" at the command line. It'd be nice to have that
feature to know if I'm still coding within an object.

I can't seem to find anything on either problem on the net. Your help is
greatly appreciated!
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On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Gary Rutledge wrote:
> |When I try to "require", "load" or use rdoc on a .rb file in IRB I get
> |the error
> |
> |"SyntaxError: compile error
> |(irb):5: unknown regexp options - gary
> | from (irb):5"
> |
> |
> |Also, i'm using the preloaded irb on my mac which uses ">>" instead of
> |"irb(main):002:0>" at the command line. It'd be nice to have that
> |feature to know if I'm still coding within an object.
> |
> |I can't seem to find anything on either problem on the net. Your help is
> |greatly appreciated!

I don't have a mac, so I'm guessing. Have you perhaps a .irbrc file in your
home directory? If so, then maybe that is the cause for both behaviours you
get. Try running irb with the -f command line option, which disables reading
the .irbrc file, and see what happens.

Regarding the prompt issue, the >> prompt can be obtained by using the
--simple-prompt command line option, so maybe you can override this passing
the --prompt-mode default option.

I hope this helps

Stefano

Gary Rutledge wrote:
> Still getting the unknown regexp though, even with the -f command.

Can you show *exactly* what you type, and exactly what response you get?

Also, what do you get from

ENV.select { |k,v| k =~ /RUBY/ }

?
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:48:42 +0900, Gary Rutledge <>
wrote:
> Thanks for you help Stefano!
>
> I can't find a .irbrc file, and my mac is set up so hidden files are
> shown so that's not the problem.
>
> Running irb -f does show the "irb(main):001:0>" , so that's half the
> battle!
>
> Still getting the unknown regexp though, even with the -f command.
>
> any ideas?

You need to post your full irb session and the file you are trying to
require/load. The error looks like at some point in your file you must
write:

/ThisIsYourRegExp/gary

Which to Ruby looks like you are trying to give the options 'gary' to the
RegExp. Given the coincidence of your name, I would suggest you have a
simple syntax error in the file you are trying to load.

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Alex Gutteridge

The content of the file is just:

puts "test"

The irb session is:

>> load /Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):3: unknown regexp options - gary
from (irb):3
>>

The .rb file was written in textedit with no rich text. I was using
netbeans and my theory was that netbeans was throwing in some meta data
with the file location that ruby was picking up and processing as a
regular expression. But textedit is the same so I don't think that's the
problem.
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On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Gary Rutledge wrote:
> |The content of the file is just:
> |
> |puts "test"
> |
> |The irb session is:
> |>> load /Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb
> |
> |SyntaxError: compile error
> |(irb):3: unknown regexp options - gary
> | from (irb):3
> |
> |
> |The .rb file was written in textedit with no rich text. I was using
> |netbeans and my theory was that netbeans was throwing in some meta data
> |with the file location that ruby was picking up and processing as a
> |regular expression. But textedit is the same so I don't think that's the
> |problem.

The path of the file should be a string:

load '/Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb'

Stefano

On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Gary Rutledge wrote:

> The content of the file is just:
>
> puts "test"
>
> The irb session is:
>
>>> load /Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb

Try:

load "/Users/gary/Desktop/test.rb"

Otherwise, it looks like a literal regular expression.

-Rob

> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):3: unknown regexp options - gary
> from (irb):3
>>>
>
> The .rb file was written in textedit with no rich text. I was using
> netbeans and my theory was that netbeans was throwing in some meta
> data
> with the file location that ruby was picking up and processing as a
> regular expression. But textedit is the same so I don't think that's
> the
> problem.
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>

Rob Biedenharn
http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/
http://GaslightSoftware.com/

Ah, You're dead right there. Works perfectly now!

Thanks for the help
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