Comments on: RSS feed for crash reports

By: Pedro Melo

Pedro Melo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000

Ok,

the last comment was messed up.

The new line should be:

break unless scanner [1]

(remove the space between scanner and [)

Best regards,

By: Pedro Melo

Pedro Melo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:10:58 +0000

Hi,

if you are getting this error:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:236:in `dup’: can’t dup NilClass (TypeError)

add this line:

break unless scanner¹

at line 38, after the

scanner.scan_until(/Date\/Time:\s+(.*)$/)

It will work around strange Crash reports like some generated by RubyCocoa apps, like Bongo.app.

I’ve sent this to Kevin, I’m posting here also so that Google can find it.

Best regards,

By: Kevin Ballard

Kevin Ballard — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:21:13 +0000

You can use it with other newsreaders if they support executing shell scripts and interpreting the results as a feed. I don’t know offhand of any newsreaders but NNW that do it (but that’s because I don’t use any other newsreaders).

By: prestiti

prestiti — Tue, 02 May 2006 11:36:32 +0000

hi kevin can I use this script only with NetNewsWire ? what about other rss news readers ?

By: Kevin Ballard

Kevin Ballard — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:47:06 +0000

Doesn’t require any “compilation” (you can’t compile ruby scripts). In any case, to make it executable you open up Terminal.app, type `chmod a+x ` (without the backticks), and drag the script into the window. Then hit return.

By: kostia

kostia — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:32:36 +0000

How do you make a Ruby script work with NetNewsWire? I gather it has to be executable (compiled?) but how do you make it executable? It seems like such a simple question, but I’ve been 100% unsuccessful in finding a simple answer.

By: Kevin Ballard

Kevin Ballard — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:18:54 +0000

buscarini – Sounds like your crash log format is different than mine. What OS are you running? And could you possibly supply me with one of your crash reports so I could try and see what’s going on? You can email me at [kevin@sb.org].

By: buscarini

buscarini — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:21:43 +0000

I get this error:

/Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:236:in `dup’: can’t dup NilClass (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:236:in `_parse’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/parsedate.rb:9:in `parsedate’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:137:in `parse’ from /Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb:38 from /Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb:34:in `each’ from /Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb:34 from /Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb:30:in `each’ from /Users/joseman/Prog/Scripts/showcrashreports.rb:30

By: tadpol

tadpol — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:56:47 +0000

spiffy neat. definitly add this script as well. so much easier than trying to remember to look at all those places.

By: Mitch Chapman

Mitch Chapman — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:48:48 +0000

Very nice! Thanks for sharing this.