On Monday, February 25, 2013 6:47:20 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > Other confusion is, it is working fine with ruby 1.8.7, not with ruby > 1.9.3, here is the code > > irb(main):003:0> length=nil > => nil > irb(main):004:0> token_string ||= ["A".."Z","a".."z","0".."9"].collect { > |r| r.to_a }.join + %q(!$:*) > => "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!$:*" > irb(main):005:0> token = (0..(length ? length : 60)).collect { > token_string[rand( token_string.size)]}.pack("c*") > TypeError: can't convert String into Integer > from (irb):5:in `pack' > from (irb):5 > from /home/appandya/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p374/bin/irb:13:in `<main>' > irb(main):006:0> > > > I've no idea what you're trying to do here, but the underlying cause is that on ruby 1.8.7:
'123'[0] #=> 49, the byte value of the first character but on ruby 1.9.3 '123'[0] #=> '1', a string of length 1 beginning at the specified offset Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/_7vRy1qTL4UJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

