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Fixnum/String randomly changing type

Sam Web

9/26/2006 6:49:00 PM

Hi,

I am seeing some odd behavior that look to me to like it could be a bug
in Ruby. Being new to the language, however, I wanted to see if there
was another explanation. I am using Ruby 1.8.4 on an Intel Mac. The
code at the bottom of this message is an excerpt from a class in a
larger script. It is using DBI to pull 10 fields from a MySQL database.
The first 9 are integers (tinyint(4) in the database) and the last is a
string (varchar(255) in the database). When I run the below program as
is, the puts outputs:

Info[0] class: String
Info[0] value: 0
Info[0] class: String
Info[0] value: 0
6 Answers

Sam Web

9/26/2006 7:09:00 PM

0

> puts "Info is: #{info[0].class}"
> # info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval.class}"; break }

One small correction... to match the output I gave, the commented out
line should read:

# info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval}"; break }


The behavior is the same in both cases, going from String to Fixnum when
the 'each' loop is uncommented.

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Paul Lutus

9/26/2006 7:43:00 PM

0

Sam Web wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am seeing some odd behavior that look to me to like it could be a bug
> in Ruby. Being new to the language, however, I wanted to see if there
> was another explanation. I am using Ruby 1.8.4 on an Intel Mac. The
> code at the bottom of this message is an excerpt from a class in a
> larger script. It is using DBI to pull 10 fields from a MySQL database.
> The first 9 are integers (tinyint(4) in the database) and the last is a
> string (varchar(255) in the database). When I run the below program as
> is, the puts outputs:
>
> Info[0] class: String
> Info[0] value: 0
> Info[0] class: String
> Info[0] value: 0

And the below program is ...?

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Sam Web

9/26/2006 7:50:00 PM

0

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Sam Web wrote:
>
>>
>> Info[0] class: String
>> Info[0] value: 0
>> Info[0] class: String
>> Info[0] value: 0
>
> And the below program is ...?

The program (or program fragment actually) at the bottom of my first
message. Here it is again:


@sthVulnID.fetch do |id|
ids.push(id[0])
begin
@sthVulnInfo.execute(id[0])
rescue DBI::DatabaseError => e
puts "An error occurred getting vulnerability info"
puts "Variables: name:\"#{name}\" k:\"#{k}\" v:\"#{v}\""
puts "Error code: #{e.err}"
puts "Error message: #{e.errstr}"
exit
end
info = @sthVulnInfo.fetch_array


puts "Info is: #{info[0].class}"
# info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval}"; break }


newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-location', 'physical') if ( info[0] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-location', 'local') if ( info[1] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-location', 'remote') if ( info[2] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-location', 'dialup') if ( info[3] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-location', 'unknown') if ( info[4] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-impact', 'confidentiality') if ( info[5] ==
1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-impact', 'integrity') if ( info[6] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-impact', 'availability') if ( info[7] == 1
)
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-impact', 'unknown') if ( info[8] == 1 )
newVuln.addInfo('osvdb-title', info[9])
end

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Austin Ziegler

9/26/2006 7:50:00 PM

0

On 9/26/06, Sam Web <swebster@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am seeing some odd behavior that look to me to like it could be a bug
> in Ruby. Being new to the language, however, I wanted to see if there
> was another explanation. I am using Ruby 1.8.4 on an Intel Mac. The
> code at the bottom of this message is an excerpt from a class in a
> larger script. It is using DBI to pull 10 fields from a MySQL database.
> The first 9 are integers (tinyint(4) in the database) and the last is a
> string (varchar(255) in the database). When I run the below program as
> is, the puts outputs:

My guess, based on what you're seeing, is that something special is
being done on the #each by either DBI or the DBD driver for MySQL. It
sees that it's really a Fixnum value that it's supposed to be
returning, and converts it for you.

-austin
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Brian Mitchell

9/26/2006 7:52:00 PM

0

On 9/26/06, Sam Web <swebster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > puts "Info is: #{info[0].class}"
> > # info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval.class}"; break }
>
> One small correction... to match the output I gave, the commented out
> line should read:
>
> # info.each { |newval| puts "#{newval}"; break }
>
>
> The behavior is the same in both cases, going from String to Fixnum when
> the 'each' loop is uncommented.

This is a documented bug. The fix for those crashes made it into
1.8.5. I recommend you upgrade.

Searching ruby-core will probably give you more results. (don't have a
reference # handy right now).

(However, I also seem to still get crashes when doing rdoc processing.
I haven't been able to pin it down for a report yet though.)

Brian.

Sam Web

10/2/2006 6:35:00 PM

0

Brian Mitchell wrote:
> On 9/26/06, Sam Web <swebster@gmail.com> wrote:
>> the 'each' loop is uncommented.
> This is a documented bug. The fix for those crashes made it into
> 1.8.5. I recommend you upgrade.
>
> Searching ruby-core will probably give you more results. (don't have a
> reference # handy right now).
>
> (However, I also seem to still get crashes when doing rdoc processing.
> I haven't been able to pin it down for a report yet though.)
>
> Brian.


Thanks Brian. Upgrading to 1.8.5 appears to have fixed the problem.

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