Rails - Sep 2005 - FastCGI on OS X, Tiger???

Hi,

I recently followed Dan Benjamin''s instructions[1] for installing Ruby
on Rails and FastCGI on my iBook running OS X, Tiger.  After
installing the MySQL gem and (for some reason) re-installing FastCGI
via the gem, I now have Ruby on Rails running on my machine.

Unfortunately, however, my setup seems really buggy.  I am following
along the tutorial in the Agile Web Development book, and sometimes
the application will load; sometimes the (unchanged) application will
not load, giving instead the message, "The Ruby application failed to
load."  Also, if the application *does* load, it runs very slowly, and
I can''t run things under Webrick if I try--it seems the ports are
bound to FastCGI.

Can someone offer me instructions on how to properly set up my
development environment on Tiger?  I''d really appreciate any relevant
links or information.  I''m dying to learn Ruby on Rails, but so far,
I''ve experienced nothing but aggrevation.

Best,

Jacob Patton

[1]  http://hivelogic.com/2005/06/22/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-tiger

Those look like pretty good instructions. The one thing I see missing  
is the fastcgi developers kit. I thought it was a prereq for running  
the whole stack but I could be wrong. Try to install this and see if  
it helps:

curl -O http://fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi.tar.gz
tar xvzf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd fcgi*
./configure
make
sudo make install

     If not contact me off list and I will help you troubleshoot. I  
have installed on OSX about 20 times and have a good set of  
instructions if you can''t get your currenty setup going

HTH
-Ezra

On Sep 20, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Jacob Patton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently followed Dan Benjamin''s instructions[1] for installing
Ruby
> on Rails and FastCGI on my iBook running OS X, Tiger.  After
> installing the MySQL gem and (for some reason) re-installing FastCGI
> via the gem, I now have Ruby on Rails running on my machine.
>
> Unfortunately, however, my setup seems really buggy.  I am following
> along the tutorial in the Agile Web Development book, and sometimes
> the application will load; sometimes the (unchanged) application will
> not load, giving instead the message, "The Ruby application failed to
> load."  Also, if the application *does* load, it runs very slowly, and
> I can''t run things under Webrick if I try--it seems the ports are
> bound to FastCGI.
>
> Can someone offer me instructions on how to properly set up my
> development environment on Tiger?  I''d really appreciate any
relevant
> links or information.  I''m dying to learn Ruby on Rails, but so
far,
> I''ve experienced nothing but aggrevation.
>
> Best,
>
> Jacob Patton
>
> [1]  http://hivelogic.com/2005/06/22/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-tiger
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