Hi,

From: "Michael Daines" <michael.daines / gmail.com>
> 
> I keep getting strange intermittent errors in various places with  
> ruby. At present, I haven't been able to identify when this happens  
> or really when it started happening. (Though I think it may have  
> something to do with installing 1.8.3, then not wanting to deal with  
> the early incompatibilities with Ruby on Rails, and then removing  
> that, and installing 1.8.2 again.)
> 
> The errors look like this:
> 
>   undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum
> 
> It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce  
> it at will. The only reference to this I can find on the internet is  
> someone else's page that was indexed by google and had the same  
> error. See this search:
> 
>   http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby+%22-517611318:Fixnum%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Anyone know whether this is still an issue?  I see blog posts
about it as recently as a month ago, but I *thought* I recalled
some mention of it being fixed recently.

I'd love to know if this was ever resolved.  I'm currently 
building 1.8.4 on OS X to embed into our C++ application, and
I'd like to build with whatever compiler version and/or patches
are needed to avoid this problem.

Thanks!

Bill