Ruby Console.... what's up with all the <br/>s?

[todd burch]

This is quite annoying. Since when did the Ruby console take it upon itself to inject <br/> tags in my output?

Is this what all the fuss is about with the alternative Ruby Consoles?

Todd

[thomthom]

Never seen that. For all output?
Maybe you're gotten a plugin being naughty and editing base methods...

[todd burch]

I figured it out, and it's a SU bug. When you have a 0x0a in your string, and you puts that string to the console, you'll get a <br/> instead of a newline.

At least that's how it working (er, not working?) on my Mac.

Todd

[todd burch]

@thomthom said:

Maybe you're gotten a plugin being naughty and editing base methods...

Not a chance!! No way, no how - not on this machine.

[remus]

Have you got the latest version? it's a known problem but alex (the person who extended it) said he was looking in to a fix.

[thomthom]

@remus said:

Have you got the latest version? it's a known problem but alex (the person who extended it) said he was looking in to a fix.

I was under the impression that Todd was referring to the native Sketchup Ruby Console - not the Webdialog version. ..or..?

[todd burch]

I am referring to the native Ruby console.

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

I figured it out, and it's a SU bug. When you have a 0x0a in your string, and you puts that string to the console, you'll get a <br/> instead of a newline.

This is very odd. 0x0a is the new line character \n - that appear all the time in strings. Not seen this in my PC - and I can't remember seeing it when debugging on my old MacMini.

[todd burch]

Here's a console recreate:
` > abc = "Hi\nthere"
Hi
there

puts abc
Hi<br/>there
nil`

[Jim]

I'd keep looking for a plugin - one with a WebDialog, one that has redefined puts, or modified the String class, or uses gsub('\n','<br/>') maybe.

[todd burch]

I found it. It is indeed some Google provided SU Ruby code on my machine, and it is doing exactly what Jim coded. I do not know, however, if the code I have is generally available code, and, it certainly (IMHO) should not be interfering with the Ruby Console.

So, SU Bug? Yes.

Will it impact anyone else - I don't know yet. I'm asking Google.

Thanks.

(So, since it IS a SU Bug, do I have to eat my words "no way, no how - not this machine"???? )

[thomthom]

What Google code is it?

Windows session:

` > abc = "Hi\nthere"
Hi
there

puts abc
Hi
there
nil`

[todd burch]

I'm running the latest SU Pro on a Mac. I think I did bypass an update-gram the other day, so I might not be on the latest.