Basic error for new user about pandoc-ruby HOT 3 CLOSED

Following advice from stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18334943/pandoc-ruby-error-when-running-documented-example I believe this might be related to the version of ruby I have installed (1.8.7)

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@danhalligan you are correct that this is due to an incompatibility with Ruby 1.8.7. While it was unintentional, note that regardless of this issue, Ruby 1.8.7 has been retired and you should upgrade to Ruby 2.

That said, I'm updating the library to internally use strings for all flags, which should resolve this issue for you. This change will make the library work with Ruby 1.8.7, and also has the added benefit of a extremely small speed improvement due to fewer Symbol <> String conversions, with no downsides that are immediately apparent.

I'll push an update to rubygems.org in the next few hours.

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Thanks for implementing this - for various reasons its hard to upgrade our ruby version.

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