Bug 772149

This seems to be issue of openbabel, not ruby. I change the component and let's see what openbabel mainteiner thinks about this issue.

Well, swig is easy and also difficult:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3302142&group_id=1645&atid=101645

One of the workarounds is:
- Rename %ruby_sitarch/openbabel.so to %ruby_sitearch/OpenBabel.so
- put the following "openbabel.rb" to under %ruby_sitelib
  openbabel.rb:
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require 'OpenBabel'
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The test case http://openbabel.org/docs/dev/UseTheLibrary/Ruby.html
works with this.

I`m not sure about Python, either. When I use openbabel from python shel it works. But when I`m trying to run a script it fails. I might do something wrong as I`m a beginner in openbabel scripting but it seems strange.

A simple example of Python code that works when I type each line in the python shell (I mean after starting the shell with 'python' command)

import pybel
mol = pybel.readstring("smi", "CC(=O)Br")
print(mol.write("sdf"))

but when the files is saved and invoked like this: python filename 
then it says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "openbabel.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pybel
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pybel.py", line 16, in <module>
    import openbabel as ob
  File "/winshare/Python/openbabel.py", line 2, in <module>
    mol = pybel.readstring("smi", "CC(=O)Br")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'readstring'

Actually this was because scripts/CMakeLists.txt is somewhat broken (with containing some typo + issue with character escape rule on cmake and shell).

Firstly fixed on F-18. F-17 will see fixed package on testing first. For f16 and f15, I may work later.

openbabel-2.3.1-4.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openbabel-2.3.1-4.fc17

openbabel-2.3.1-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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Well, this issue was kept open also for F16, where the problem probably still persists => REOPEN

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