diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/pathname+yeast.rb b/Library/Homebrew/pathname+yeast.rb
index f0ca0f5031..1c7b9794d7 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/pathname+yeast.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/pathname+yeast.rb
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class Pathname
     # we only support numbered tagged downloads
     %r[github.com/.*/tarball/((\d\.)+\d)$].match to_s
     return $1 if $1
-    
+        
     # eg. boost_1_39_0
     /((\d+_)+\d+)$/.match stem
     return $1.gsub('_', '.') if $1
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ class Pathname
     stem.scan /_([^_]+)/ do |match|
       return match.first if /\d/.match $1
     end
+
+    nil
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/unittest.rb b/Library/Homebrew/unittest.rb
index 4e387bcbff..65ac81d875 100755
--- a/Library/Homebrew/unittest.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/unittest.rb
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ class BeerTasting <Test::Unit::TestCase
     end
   end
   
+  def test_no_version
+    assert_nil Pathname.new("http://example.com/blah.tar").version
+    assert_nil Pathname.new("arse").version
+  end
+  
   def test_bad_version
     assert_raises(RuntimeError) {f=TestBadVersion.new}
   end