Example #4 of ScriptingContainer documentation doesn't work

[abonas]

source:
http://jruby.org/apidocs/org/jruby/embed/ScriptingContainer.html

This example:

Example 4:
         ScriptingContainer container = new ScriptingContainer();
         script =
          "def message\n" +
              "\"message: #\"\n" +
          "end\n" +
          "message";
         container.put("@message", "What's up?");
         EvalUnit unit = container.parse(script);
         IRubyObject ret = unit.run();
         System.out.println(JavaEmbedUtils.rubyToJava(ret));
         container.put("@message", "Fabulous!");
         ret = unit.run();
         System.out.println(JavaEmbedUtils.rubyToJava(ret));
         container.put("@message", "That's the way you are.");
         ret = unit.run();
         System.out.println(JavaEmbedUtils.rubyToJava(ret));

first of all, the script variable needs a type (String)
But even after adding it, the script outputs the following:

message: #
message: #
message: #

same result also when initializing the scripting container with LocalVariableBehavior.PERSISTENT
tested with jruby 1.7.18

[kares]

improved ScriptingCotainer's javadoc based on your suggestion, but the code runs just fine.
please make sure you did not miss "message"; and also try against 1.7.20 ... should be all well

[abonas]

@kares, thank you. RVM's latest jruby is 1.7.19, not 1.7.20
The rvm I have is 1.26.11, it claims to be the latest (no update available) - on rhel.

[kares]

@abonas simply do not assume RVM to know better than us :) rvm install jruby-1.7.20 (or 1.7.20.1)

[abonas]

improved ScriptingCotainer's javadoc based on your suggestion, but the code runs just fine.
please make sure you did not miss "message"; and also try against 1.7.20 ... should be all well

I'm not sure what you meant by "did not miss 'message'" - but it still doesn't work with 1.7.20.
I run the example as is from the docs - copy paste it (with the fix for adding String for script var) - it prints:
message: #
message: #
message: #

[kares]

... I meant (last line) but you mentioned you double checked your ✂️ :

          "def message\n" +
              "\"message: #\"\n" +
          "end\n" +
          "message";

hmm, that makes no sense ... works just fine as the suite runs, you mentioned RVM - could we know details about your environment and how you run these - any system properties set ?

[abonas]

sure. OS is rhel 6.5. jruby 1.7.20, jruby installed with rvm.
I run the examples in IntelliJ, just a Java simple class with a main method, and I specifically added the jruby.jar from the 1.7.20 installation location to the project libraries in IntelliJ to make sure it takes the right one.
All needed classes get imported properly, and I see they are from the 1.7.20 jruby.jar.

[bbrowning]

@abonas What's happening here is the rendered JavaDocs are missing some of the necessary Ruby code, which is hopefully fixed by @kares change. In the meantime, use https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/jruby-1_7/core/src/main/java/org/jruby/embed/ScriptingContainer.java#L156-L171 as your source for copy & pasting the code.

[abonas]

@bbrowning you are 100% right! copy pasting from that source did the work. thanks a lot!