Issue #2016 has been updated by Roger Pack. This might be related (these commands work with 1.9, but not 1.8 for me [mswin/mingw]) C:\dev\digitalarchive_trunk>ruby -e " \"3\" " \""\" -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file C:\dev\digitalarchive_trunk>ruby -e " \"3\" " -e:1: unterminated string meets end of file -r ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2016 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org