On Oct 29, 6:27 pm, has <has.te... / virgin.net> wrote: > > Note: it may help to indicate which Ruby installation you're using - > Apple's or something else? At the moment, totally stock standard; this is a clean install using Apple's Ruby (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [universal- darwin9.0]). Will continue to investigate. Cheers, Wincent