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Alexander Popov
Alexander Popov

Reputation: 24965

Sublime Text 2 Ruby console not working

The following code:

p ({ table: 2, sandwich: "hamburger", drink: "cola" })

gives the following output in a normal terminal session with ruby _filename_.rb:

{:table=>2, :sandwich=>"hamburger", :drink=>"cola"}

and in the console of Sublime Text 2 using Command+b:

/Users/*******/Desktop/scratchpad.rb:1: odd number list for Hash
p ({ table: 2, sandwich: "hamburger", drink: "cola" })
           ^
/Users/*******/Desktop/scratchpad.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '}'
p ({ table: 2, sandwich: "hamburger", drink: "cola" })
           ^
[Finished in 0.0s with exit code 1]

Why is that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Jakob S
Jakob S

Reputation: 20125

It looks like Sublime Text might be running a Ruby version from before the foo: "bar" Hash syntax was introduced (perhaps the OS X default Ruby).

You can verify this by running a script in Sublime Text with

p RUBY_VERSION

It should output a version 1.9 or newer.

Upvotes: 2

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