There is a space after '#'. The test actually makes sure no one can
inject ruby. So the role of the function to test is to replace '#{..}'
by '# {...}', but then the {..} is invalid but does not raise an
exception which is annoying.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Gaspard Bucher <gaspard / teti.ch> wrote:
>> This is crazy. When I write a simple test case with your example it
>> works just fine but I still get this message when running all the
>> tests:
>> /lib/parser/test/../lib/rules/zena.rb:231: warning: regexp has invalid interval
>> ./lib/parser/test/../lib/rules/zena.rb:231: warning: regexp has `}'
>> without escape
>> compiled-template:1: warning: regexp has invalid interval
>> compiled-template:1: warning: regexp has `}' without escape
>>
>> This message does not come from the simple test I wrote but from this test:
>> ruby test/helpers/zena_parser_test.rb --name test_basic_show_mean_gsub
>>
>> [edit] Ok, I found the problem:
>>
>>  def test_bad_regexp
>>    assert_equal "<span class='parser_error'>invalid regexp \"# {puts
>> 'I AM MEAN'}\"", validate_regexp("# {puts 'I AM MEAN'}")
>>  end
>>
>>  private
>>    def validate_regexp(str)
>>      begin
>>       re = /#{str}/
>>      rescue => e
>>       # invalid regexp
>>       "<span class='parser_error'>invalid regexp #{str.inspect}</span>"
>>      end
>>    end
>>
>> The regexp is seen as valid even though it is not. I
>
> Well the regexp you're testing IS valid, perhaps it's not the regexp
> you think it is:
>
> irb(main):009:0> a = "#{puts 'I am mean'}"
> I am mean
> => ""
> irb(main):010:0> a
> => ""
> irb(main):011:0> /#{a}/
> => //
>
> Remember that puts return nil, and nil.to_s is an empty string.
>
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>
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>
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