misleading error message on ruby version

[junkoi2004 at gmail.com (Jun Koi)]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Rhys Kidd <rhyskidd at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you take a look inside Metasploit at the file which generates this
> warning you will see that rather than merely do a look-up and comparison of
> the reported Ruby version number, it actually uses a small snippet of code
> that checks for the bug itself.
>
> http://trac.metasploit.com/browser/framework3/trunk/lib/msf/sanity.rb

I did, and saw that before i wrote this email. But the intention of my
message is to report the misleading message: my ruby version is
already 1.8.6, so the recommendation to switch to 1.8.6 is misleading.

Thanks,
J


> 2009/3/5 Jun Koi <junkoi2004 at gmail.com>
> > Hi,
> >
> > msfcli reports the below message, which is misleading. i think the
> > recommendation "switch to 1.8.6" is only relevant to Ubuntu or some
> > others, but at least not for Fedora.
> >
> > I am on Fedora Core 9, and using ruby 1.8.6, exactly what msfcli
> > recommends.
> >
> > %ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-linux]
> >
> > so the message should be fixed one or another way.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > J
> >
> > ***********************************************************************
> > *** ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? *
> > *** This version of the Ruby interpreter has significant problems, we *
> > *** strongly recommend that you switch to version 1.8.6 until these ? *
> > *** issues have been corrected. Alternatively, you can download, ? ? ?*
> > *** build, and install the latest Ruby snapshot from: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? *
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