[LRUG] Help with mish-mash rails install

Fri Aug 18 04:43:24 PDT 2006

Ok thanks; I might stick to the gem then until I am confident enough  
to start using the RoR in source control.
Thanks

Tom Medhurst

On 18 Aug 2006, at 12:40, Jonathan Conway wrote:

> I did try the REST-full plugin with 1.1.4 (haven't used it with  
> 1.1.6) and found it OK.
> The only thing you have to worry about is that the REST-full plugin  
> hasn't been updated
> for a while and all the latest bug fixes will be in edge.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 18 Aug 2006, at 12:29, Tom Medhurst wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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