Regular Expression Too Big

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi Guys,

Not sure exactly what happened or what caused the error, but when I try to start my server or do a 'rails -v', I'm getting these strange errors:

$ rails -v /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/rubygems.rb:75:in `require': /System/Library/Frameworks/ Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin9.0/ rbconfig.rb:165: regular expression too big: /\$\$|\$\(([^()]+)\)|\$\ {([^{}]+)\}/ (SyntaxError) /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ 1.8/universal-darwin9.0/rbconfig.rb:168: regular expression too big: / \A[^:]+(?=(?::(.*?)=(.*))?\z)/ from /System/Library/Frameworks/ Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:75   from /usr/bin/rails:9:in `require'   from /usr/bin/rails:9 $ ruby script/server script/server:2:in `require': ./script/../config/boot.rb:97: regular expression too big: /^[^#]*RAILS_GEM_VERSION\s*=\s*["']([!~<>=]* \s*[\d.]+)["']/ (SyntaxError)   from script/server:2

It says something about the regular expression being too big? This happens in all checkouts of my code now, and even different projects. The only thing I did was did a pretty big commit to svn.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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if thats the ONLY thing you did, have you tried rolling back a couple versions??