Railsters: Suppose I have a shell account, without root permission, on a Rails-enabled hosting site. Now suppose the sysadmin didn''t include sqlite3, for example, and I want to crow-bar it into my own site. (Yes, switching to MySQL, the way the Lamp Gods intended, is next!) Can I use gem install sqlite3 --install-dir lib ? I tried that, and the system can''t find the gem. So I add the gem''s raw path to environment.rb: $:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ''../lib/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.1.0.1/lib/'') Now the system can find the sqlite3.rb, but not sqlite3_api.so. I toss that into ~/bin, which is on the preexisting PATH, and it still doesn''t work. At a guess, I am within one symlink of getting this, but what is it?? It ain''t "ln -s ~/bin/sqlite3_api.so ~/bin/sqlite3.so".... (BTW it''s _why''s sqlite3, from gem install sqlite3-ruby --source code.whytheluckystiff.net , natch!) -- Phlip http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---