em-hiredis-0.3.0 doesn't even load, MacOSX stock Ruby

[michiexile]

Trying to get a package that depends on em-hiredis up and running, I pulled the latest and get the following:

$ irb

require 'em-hiredis'
SyntaxError: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:20: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '|'
self.send(:define_method, name.to_sym) { |keys, args=[]|
^
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:22: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:28: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '|'
singleton.send(:define_method, name.to_sym) { |keys, args=[]|
^
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:30: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:35: syntax error, unexpected tSTAR, expecting tAMPER
..., lua_sha, keys.size, *keys, *args).callback(
^
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:39: syntax error, unexpected tSTAR, expecting tAMPER
self.eval(lua, keys.size, *keys, *args)
^
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis/client.rb:110: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/em-hiredis-0.3.0/lib/em-hiredis.rb:64
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in gem_original_require' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from (irb):1

[mloughran]

Ah yes - ruby 1.8 doesn't support default block arguments which is what that exception is complaining about. One could easily change the code but at this stage I'm very happy to break 1.8 compatibility (it's not even maintained any more) - but I should add a note to that effect to the readme. You must be using a rather old version of OSX?

[michiexile]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:45 AM, Martyn Loughran [email protected] wrote:

Ah yes - ruby 1.8 doesn't support default block arguments which is what that exception is complaining about. One could easily change the code but at this stage I'm very happy to break 1.8 compatibility (it's not even maintained any more) - but I should add a note to that effect to the readme. You must be using a rather old version of OSX?

A note in the README, maybe even with something like "the latest version to be compatible was X" would be very helpful, yes.

I'm on MacOSX 10.5.8.

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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