cannot access params

[fred]

On some workers I cannot access params.
I pass the parameters to the job correctly, but when on the worker when I try to access params, it's nil.

example code:

require 'common/base'

unless ARGV.include?("-id")
  params = {'name' => 'homespace'}
end

unless params['name']
  p "'name' parameter is missing, aborting execution..."
  exit
end

error output:

WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.8.0, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
/task/xml_data_fetcher_worker.rb:7:in `<top (required)>': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from __runner__.rb:213:in `<main>'

the payload looks just fine when viewed by the web ui:

{
  "name": "homespace"
}

Any ideas?
I recently had to add "@use_local_iron_worker_ng = true" to my .worker file to be able to remote build a ruby worker.
without that line, ruby workers cant build (#159)

[fred]

I also tried running the ruby worker with just this line on top:

p "params: #{params.inspect}"

I still get params: nil

anybody at Iron.io can help?
I cant run any worker at moment, I'm stuck.

[treeder]

Hi @fred , can you print the raw payload instead?

p "payload: #{payload.inspect}"

[fred]

I managed to solve this problem.
when using "require_relative" method on the worker, params is nil, so I have to use just "require"

for example

# this causes params to be nil
require_relative 'common/base'

# but this is ok
require 'common/base'

Very strange issue.

ps: I run Ruby 2.0 locally, but iron.io is still on 1.9.3p0, maybe that could be a cause?

Best regards.
Fred