Rails - Jun 2005 - Installation hints

I''m going to deploy my Rails + MySQL app to customer''s fresh
new
Debian Linux.
Since I''m not familiar with Debian please drop me hints about  
specifics, performance tuning, etc.
Thanks,

Gábor

Hi Guys,

I''ve been lurking for a while, so here goes my first post...

Rake prints the following error message when I try to run the unit
tests for a library I''m building:

NoMethodError: undefined method `get_fields'' for #<Net::HTTPOK 200
readbody=false>
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:425:in
`fetch_page''
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:422:in
`request''
       from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:835:in `reading_body''
       from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:835:in `request''
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:422:in
`fetch_page''
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:376:in
`start''
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:376:in
`fetch_page''
       from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.2.2/lib/mechanize.rb:293:in
`get''

After playing around with irb trying to replicate the problem, I
discovered that the following code will work just fine (when executed
from my Rails directory):

require ''rubygems''
require ''mechanize''
mech = WWW::Mechanize.new
mech.get(''http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r109:@FIELD(FLD003+s)+@FIELD(DDATE+20050525)'')

But the following will raise the exception every time (when executed
from my Rails directory):

require ''config/environment''
require ''mechanize''
mech = WWW::Mechanize.new
mech.get(''http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r109:@FIELD(FLD003+s)+@FIELD(DDATE+20050525)'')

What is going on?  It seems like something in the Rails environment is
messing up WWW::Mechanize''s behavior, but that doesn''t make
much
sense.

If anyone could shed some light on this issue, I would greatly
appreciate the help.

Thanks,

-Bryan

-- 
http://www.MyCongress.org/ -- coming soon

New to debian? Use aptitude to install applications.

I have comments about installing ruby and rails at 
http://kellyfelkins.org/article/76/installing-ruby-and-rails-on-debian, 
which is a slight variation/enhancement to the howto at 
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/RailsOnUbuntuDebianTestingAndUnstable

Debian is a great distro though its initial ruby packaging was flawed. 
That''s fixed now and things are working really well. 

Please reply to the group when you have more specific questions.

-Kelly



On 6/21/05, Gábor SEBESTYÉN
<segabor-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> 
> I''m going to deploy my Rails + MySQL app to customer''s
fresh new
> Debian Linux.
> Since I''m not familiar with Debian please drop me hints about
> specifics, performance tuning, etc.
> Thanks,
> 
> Gábor
> 
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On Jun 21, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Bryan Helmkamp wrote:
> What is going on?  It seems like something in the Rails environment is
> messing up WWW::Mechanize''s behavior, but that doesn''t
make much
> sense.
I wonder what would happen if you try putting a ''require'' near
the
top of your environment.rb file?  Maybe it wouldn''t get a chance to  
mess up the ruby include path (if indeed that''s what''s
happening).

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)




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