I have no idea why this bug fix works, but it does. When I run tidy_ffi via a Unicorn, a Sinatra app, and Rack-XSLView manually, it works fine. If I run it via daemontools, it returns an empty string because for some reason LibTidy.tidyReleaseDate isn't return a date!
@@ -76,12 +76,7 @@ class TidyFFI::Interface def tidy_buf_object @tidy_buf_object ||= begin - release_date = Date.parse(LibTidy.tidyReleaseDate) rescue nil - if release_date && (release_date > Date.parse("Dec 29 2006")) - TidyFFI::LibTidy::TidyBufWithAllocator - else - TidyFFI::LibTidy::TidyBuf - end + TidyFFI::LibTidy::TidyBufWithAllocator end end
UPDATE: This wasn't the end of it. I submitted the fix to libc (Eugene), and he said the check was needed for Mac OS X which ships with an older version of libTidy. I dug deeper, and found that the date was getting returned, but it just wasn't getting processed correctly. After that, I did some external troubleshooting, and found that in irb1.9.1 I had to require 'date' to parse the date libTidy was returning. I switched out require 'rubygems' with require 'date', and the bug went away. Yay!