[LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install

[Tom Medhurst]

Hi Guys
I come to you in a moment of desperation...

...the caveat is I am a humble c# windows developer with little - no  
experience with programming for mac, (read a book on objective c once  
and ran away!) Although I thought that had changed when I turned to  
ruby.. now I could write programs that ported onto any system.. even  
better with rails, as I could develop web sites on my pc or one of my  
macs, great!

I managed to work out how to install all the prereqs: mysql, ruby- 
mysql-adapter, rails and all dependencies via rubygems and get it  
working.. yay!

However when it comes to upgrading, when there is a new release of  
rails for example; I am in a world of pain! AHHHH! My real underlying  
problem is I have no clue how all these apps are tied together and I  
am missing some fundamental knowledge of how OSX and even UNIX does  
things because I am Bill Gate's bytch. :'-(

So I ran under bash:

sudo bash
gem update rails --include-dependencies

and it updated everything like a dream.. however when I attempted to  
run any rails app, I got an error complaining that it could not login  
as no password was being sent. (Access denied for user:  
'root at 127.0.0.1' (Using password: NO))
So I thought fine; I must need to update the rails-mysql adapter as  
it is no longer sending the connection string correctly; but this is  
starting to sound like the UNIX equivalent of DLL hell!

So I upgraded to version 2.7 (ruby) using the bash command:

gem update mysql

Which failed instantly, I think something important is missing from  
my PATH??
so I went to the mysql2.7 gem directory and ran:

ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config
make
ruby test.rb localhost root andmypasswordhere
make install

unfortunately four of the unit tests failed and now web brick won't  
even boot. I am sorry to clutter a happy newsgroup with stories of  
terror, but I desperately need some guidence, firstly in fixing what  
I currently have, and secondly with an upgrade plan to ensure I don't  
get my self into this mess everytime I upgrade.

Many Thanks

Tom Medhurst
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