[LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install

[Tom Medhurst]

Ah-Ha!

Thanks Jonathan, I guess I'm not bleeding edge enough for this then.
You think it is worth using the REST-full plugin with the gems  
version of RoR?

Tom Medhurst

On 18 Aug 2006, at 12:25, Jonathan Conway wrote:

> The REST'y stuff is currently only on edge. I'd recommend freezing  
> to 4727 as the rewritten dependencies stuff has a few
> issues if you're using certain plugins (its the rewritten  
> dependencies fault not the plugins fault.. honest:))
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 18 Aug 2006, at 12:13, Tom Medhurst wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ross!
>> When reading from the RoR web-site; The hyphens are stuck together  
>> (Georgia strikes again!) so it looked like two hyphens rather than  
>> four. Thinking about it; it makes sense, now the first two hyphens  
>> mean that any args after them get passed into the install operation.
>>
>> After this I also managed to figure out why webBRICK wouldn't  
>> boot... I commented out the following line of code from routes.rb:
>>
>> map.resources :users
>>
>> and it worked! yay! ..however; I thought that the REST-full plugin  
>> was all integrated into the latest release of RoR (1.1.6)? Am I  
>> wrong?
>>
>> Tom Medhurst
>>
>>
>> On 18 Aug 2006, at 11:58, Ross Lawley wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> I had a simlar issue the other week heres how I fixed it:
>>>
>>> gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/PATH/TO/mysql_config
>>>
>>> Seemed simpler than the other route!  And the mysql gem complied  
>>> a treat.
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:36:24 +0100
>>> From: Tom Medhurst < tom at tmedhurst.me.uk>
>>> Subject: Re: [LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install
>>> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lrug.org>
>>> Message-ID: < 7823E03A-DEAB-481E-B305-80D06E40B3DF at tmedhurst.me.uk>
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>>>
>>> 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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