Nil pointer error in AMQP::Queue.new

[dougbarth]

If you try to pass a nil queue name to AMQP::Queue.new, the initialize method bombs with nil.empty? not being a valid method. This is on version 0.7.1 of the gem. That line is setting the name ivar to nil if the passed in name parameter is an empty string. It seems that it should check that name is not nil first.

@name = name unless name.empty?

NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.empty?
[GEM_ROOT]/gems/amqp-0.7.1/lib/amqp/queue.rb:72:in `initialize'
[GEM_ROOT]/gems/amqp-0.7.1/lib/amqp/channel.rb:619:in `new'
[GEM_ROOT]/gems/amqp-0.7.1/lib/amqp/channel.rb:619:in `queue'

[dougbarth]

Closing this. I opened a bug ruby-amqp#46 in the root repo. Sorry for the error.