Tag Archives: json

The json gem strikes again: heroku on Windows

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Carol

This json gem without windows binaries for Ruby 1.9.2 is the bane of my existence. I just started using heroku today with the heroku gem, and on every command I got the dreaded “msvcrt-ruby18.dll was not found” popup. As usual, … Continue reading →

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Learning Bundler

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Carol

So after I figured out how to fix the cross-thread violations due to the json gem, and the other problems I ran into, I reproduced the bug I was actually attempting to fix. Then I checked out cucumber, changed my … Continue reading →

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[BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc()

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Carol

The Problem: When I ran: > rails generate rspec:install > rails generate cucumber:install I got: [BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc() (null) This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team … Continue reading →

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