Redmine

Hi,

I have setup my subversion repository in my redmine installation but the repository tab doesn't displays an error message. When I debugged the code, I found the issue is with the "svn list xml ...." command executed using IO.popen() method. The xml output of this method is passed to a block for parsing the xml where the xml is incomplete and the parser throws an error.

From what I guess is that the ruby program is not waiting for the popen() to finish but prematurely passing its incomplete xml output to its given block. How do I ensure that the popen() is finished before returning to the calling method.

Here is the code:

shellout(cmd) do |io|
  output = io.read
  begin
    doc = ActiveSupport::XmlMini.parse(output)
  rescue
    #log the error 
  end
end

calls

def self.shellout(cmd, &block)
  IO.popen(cmd, "r+") do |io|
    io.close_write
    block.call(io) if block_given?
  end
end