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Marked + Dropbox (1.4.2)

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Wes Freeman

31 May, 2013 08:41 PM

I try to open a file from my Dropbox synched folders (Leanpub), and it crashes with the attached stacktrace. Even if there is something wrong, I'd expect an error message rather than a crash. Thanks!

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1. 1 Posted by Wes Freeman on 31 May, 2013 08:54 PM

   

   Hmm, so apparently this has nothing to do with Dropbox, as I have just copied the file to my ~/ folder, and I'm still getting the crash.

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2. 2 Posted by Wes Freeman on 31 May, 2013 09:01 PM

   

   Further details, now that I know it's not the fault of Dropbox:
   - first attempt at using marked (I've not used it before), so it didn't just start crashing
   - happens with many files (even empty files)
   - I am an admin user on my mac (the exception seems to be sometimes caused because of this?)

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 31 May, 2013 10:46 PM

   

   Do you have the system ruby available at /usr/bin/ruby? If not, Marked requires that a ruby binary be accessible at that path.

   -Brett

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4. 4 Posted by Wes Freeman on 01 Jun, 2013 12:09 PM

   

   Nope. Mine looks like it is in /usr/local/bin/ruby

   I copied it to /usr/bin/ruby, and indeed it works now.

   This should have a better error message. I'm pretty sure I didn't move ruby myself, but it's possible I did something to make it non-standard. Still, it shouldn't crash.

   Thanks!

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Brett on 05 Jun, 2013 02:29 PM

   

   The next version does the following:

   1. Uses the system framework ruby, which usually stays intact even with rvm.
      
   2. Does a test and warns on launch if it's not accessible, avoids crash.

   I will probably work these changes into the 1.4 App Store version and submit after my current round of fixes is approved.

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