ruby 2.0: .../lib/veewee/provider/vmfusion/provider.rb:34:in `split': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

[offby1]

I tried to build a VMware box, with ruby 2.0, and got the above exception.

I suspect the problem is due to non-ASCII characters (the copyright symbol (c) for one) in the output of ``system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType'', combined with changes to the default encoding of streams in ruby 1.9+.

This little snippet demonstrates the problem:

shell_results = IO.popen("system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType"){ |p| p.readlines }
shell_results.join('').split(/VMware/)

/usr/bin/ruby (i.e., ruby 1.8) runs this with no problem, but ruby 1.9 and 2.0 die with the exception.

Changing the script allows it to run on the newer rubies:

shell_results = IO.popen("system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType",
                         :external_encoding => Encoding::UTF_8){ |p| p.readlines }
shell_results.join('').split(/VMware/)

... but then it breaks on 1.8, because there is no Encoding module. If I had more ruby-fu, I'd find a way to test, at runtime, for the presence of the Encoding module, and only pass that :external_encoding option if it were present.

[n0ts]

Hi, I got a same issue.
I send a pull-request https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/pull/986/files
Thanks!

[mpapis]

fixed with #986