"Can't convert HostOS into String"

[tsmacdonald]

I'm using launchy on Crunchbang Linux, which is based on Debian and uses Openbox as a window manager. I have xdg-open installed, and it's working correctly. However, when I run launchy http://www.github.com, I get:

Failure in opening http://www.github.com with options {}: can't convert Launchy::Detect::HostOs into String

After much dropping of putses and experimentation, I fixed it by changing

    found = find_child( :matches?, host_os )

in lib/launchy/detect/host_os_family.rb:detect to

    found = find_child( :matches?, host_os.host_os )

So is this due to some quirk in my OS, or is it a bug proper? Do you want me to submit a pull request?

Thanks.

[copiousfreetime]

Is the launchy you are using one that is shipped with Crunchbang? Can you tell me what version it is that is failing for you? Or is it one that you are installing yourself? Also, could re rerun the launchy command as:

% launchy -d http://www.github.com/

And then paste the output here?

[tsmacdonald]

I'm using 2.1.0, which I got through bundler (which got it through rubygems.org). I'm also using JRuby. Here's a gist with information about the environment and the debug output you wanted.

[copiousfreetime]

Thanks, I'll take a look and see what I can figure out.

[danibrear]

it's a problem with the logger line in ( launchy-2.1.0-java/lib/launchy/descendant_tracker.rb ) at line 44:

Launchy.log "Checking if class #{child} is the one for #{method}(#{args.join(', ')})}"

I commented out this line and it works just fine. It's trying to do a .join on the HostOs object which doesn't work.

[copiousfreetime]

Thanks for additional report. My apologies for not consolidating all this into a final bug fix. I'll be rolling this and a couple of other issues up into a new release here in the next week or so.