Rails - May 2006 - Can''t Install Rails with Ruby Gem Dependencies, OS X

Hello Community:

I''m a brand new user of Ruby on Rails, and am having a great deal of 
trouble compiling from source. I''m using the tutorial at 
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
to complete the install.

Readline and Ruby installed just fine, and the Ruby Gems appeared to. 
But when I tried to sudo gem install Rails --include-dependencies, I got 
the following error:

sudo: gem: command not found

I tried to move on and install the Fast CGI with bindings, with the same 
error. I Googled and searched for an answer most of the night, without 
avail.

I''m running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6, and am using File Vault on my home 
directory, which hasn''t been a problem for builds in the past.

Any information that could be passed along would be much appreciated. 
I''m anxious to use Ruby on Rails, but can''t get it running.

Thank you.

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Trevor

I can''t help you with your particular problem as such.  However, can I
suggest you have at look at Locomotive,
http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage

Ryan Raaum has done an absolutely fantastic job with Locomotive.

Good luck. 
Harvey

On 10/5/06 14:29, "Trevor Pierce" <pierce.trevor@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Community:
> 
> I''m a brand new user of Ruby on Rails, and am having a great deal
of
> trouble compiling from source. I''m using the tutorial at
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> to complete the install.
> 
> Readline and Ruby installed just fine, and the Ruby Gems appeared to.
> But when I tried to sudo gem install Rails --include-dependencies, I got
> the following error:
> 
> sudo: gem: command not found
> 
> I tried to move on and install the Fast CGI with bindings, with the same
> error. I Googled and searched for an answer most of the night, without
> avail.
> 
> I''m running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6, and am using File Vault on my
home
> directory, which hasn''t been a problem for builds in the past.
> 
> Any information that could be passed along would be much appreciated.
> I''m anxious to use Ruby on Rails, but can''t get it
running.
> 
> Thank you.

This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by MessageLabs.

Could it be that I didn''t install the fixrbconfig gem? I''m
reading
elsewhere that it''s the source of a lot of grief.

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Trevor Pierce wrote:
> Hello Community:
> 
> I''m a brand new user of Ruby on Rails, and am having a great deal
of
> trouble compiling from source. I''m using the tutorial at 
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> to complete the install.
> 
> Readline and Ruby installed just fine, and the Ruby Gems appeared to. 
> But when I tried to sudo gem install Rails --include-dependencies, I got 
> the following error:
> 
> sudo: gem: command not found
> 
> I tried to move on and install the Fast CGI with bindings, with the same 
> error. I Googled and searched for an answer most of the night, without 
> avail.
> 
> I''m running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6, and am using File Vault on my
home
> directory, which hasn''t been a problem for builds in the past.
> 
> Any information that could be passed along would be much appreciated. 
> I''m anxious to use Ruby on Rails, but can''t get it
running.
> 
> Thank you.

I read somewhere that the default installation of ruby on Mac OS X has 
some problems. There''s a great article at 
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
that covers ruby, rails, lighttpd etc installation on the Mac. I''m 
currently waiting to upgrade my ibook G3 before using a mac for ROR 
development. I''m currently developing on a Linux box.

Hope this helps,

Jon

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Jon Hinckley wrote:
> 
> I read somewhere that the default installation of ruby on Mac OS X has 
> some problems. There''s a great article at 
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> that covers ruby, rails, lighttpd etc installation on the Mac. I''m
> currently waiting to upgrade my ibook G3 before using a mac for ROR 
> development. I''m currently developing on a Linux box.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jon

Sorry I should have read your posing a little closer. You''ve already
seen the hive logic article.

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Trevor,

If you''re eager to get going quickly, skip compiling from source and 
just get Locomotive.  It comes with everything you''ll need to get 
started with Rails.  Then install XAMPP for OS X 
(http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) to get mysql and phpmyadmin.

Shouldn''t take more than 10 minutes to get going.

The only trouble I ran into was pointing Rails at the xampp mysql socket 
file, add:

  socket: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock

to your database.yml and you''ll be set.

Ken

Trevor Pierce wrote:
> Hello Community:
>
> I''m a brand new user of Ruby on Rails, and am having a great deal
of
> trouble compiling from source. I''m using the tutorial at 
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> to complete the install.
>

Trevor Pierce wrote:
> Readline and Ruby installed just fine, and the Ruby Gems appeared to. 
> But when I tried to sudo gem install Rails --include-dependencies, I got 
> the following error:
> 
> sudo: gem: command not found
gem is not on your path.

Either the gem install did not succeed, or it succeeded in installing 
gem somewhere that is not in your PATH.

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Ray

Hi,
I did the install on my Mac a couple of weeks ago, using the same 
tutorial, and ran into quite a few problems...

I can''t remember exactly what I did to fix it, but I remember the first
step: I googled the exact text of the error message that you get.  Lots 
of people have had the same problem, and there were quite a few good 
links to sort the problem out.  From memory though, your problem was 
actually during the gems install.  Go back and try that step again to 
get the error message.  then do the search on Google.  the redo the 
installation of gems.

Other tricks for young players, when the Universal Binaries version of 
Tiger was released, the Ruby libs were moved from 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ppc-darwin8.0 to 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0.  if you do a search on Google for 
the path you should find the answer, for example, on this site : 
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoUseSQLite

there is this:
"There are several possible reasons; if you don?t have Xcode installed 
the ruby.h header file won?t be found. If you have Xcode 2.2 on Tiger 
10.4.3 you?ll find the ruby.h header file has moved from 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/ruby.h to 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0/ruby.h. As a result it isn?t being 
found by gem. Some people have found symlinks fix the problem, but many 
readers of comp.lang.ruby advocate installing ruby from source as the 
install of ruby that comes with Tiger is deemed to be slightly broken"

Anyway, I hope that helps...

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I recently used James Duncan Davidson''s "Sandboxing Rails with
Darwin
Ports," [http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox]. I was  
already using DarwinPorts anyway, so this worked really well for me.  
The overall process took quite some time due to all the compiling,  
but it was worth it. Package managers are the way to go if you''re  
going to be compiling from source. Who wants to chase down  
dependencies when installing or upgrading? Let the package manager  
(whichever you might use) do it for you.

Craig

Heh. Mail in Mac OS X doesn''t handle that URL well; it adds the  
trailing '']'' by mistake.

Here it is again for convenience:

http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox

Craig

To everyone who''s submitted to this thread:

Thank you for your time and energy in helping me solve this problem. And 
as per my programming usual, the real problem was me.

In the past I had (unknowingly at this time) edited ~/.bash_profile to 
make the PATH /usr/local/mysql, which caused me all kinds of problems 
with gems.

I''ve since learned how to echo the PATH using basic UNIX commands and 
have changed it. The install is going smoothly and taking forever, but 
Ruby on Rails will be running shortly.

For anyone interested, I would say check the following files, in this 
order, before compiling anything from source that expects a specific 
path.

~/.bash_login
~/.bash_profile
~/.profile

These files all have a hand in the UNIX PATH and setting a new path on 
one doesn''t necessarily trump the previous one. Once you''ve
set the path
you want, run echo $PATH from the command line to see if it''s what you 
want.

This is probably common knowledge to most, and would have been the 
course of action to solve my problem, but if it spares one person some 
grief, then it''s worth hearing again.

Thank you,

Trevor

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