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[why the lucky stiff]

William Morgan wrote:
> Excerpts from why the lucky stiff's mail of 20 Sep 2004 (EDT):
> 
>>Now that you've dipped into the API, what's your feedback?  Bliss?
>>Confusion?  Anything caused a snag?
> 
> 
> It's been ok so far; mostly a matter of figuring the darn thing out. The
> only real problem I've been having is that debugging is difficult---the
> error messages don't actually pinpoint the source of the error. E.g., I
> get things like this:
> 
>   519$ hobix regen all-thing
>   [Building sidebar pages]
>   ## Page: /sidebar.html, updated Mon Sep 20 19:45:32 EDT 2004
>   /usr/local/stowed/hobix-0.2d/lib/site_ruby/1.8/hobix/out/quick.rb:62:in `load': Error `cannot convert Array into String' in erb /var/www/hobix/skel/sidebar.html.quick. (Hobix::Out::QuickError)
> 
> which don't even reference the file, much less the line number,
> containing the mistake.

This problem might be eased if I used a temporary file to store the 
compiled ERb document.  Then, plugins could `load' instead of `eval'.

I'll figure something out cause this reeally bugs me too.

_why