Rails - Nov 2005 - weird errors with self-installed ruby 1.8.3 on Mac OS X 10.4.3

Hi All,

I''m hoping someone has seen this error before and can advise me.

I was having problems with Switchtower hanging, and I found a blog  
posting which pointed the finger at Apple''s install of Ruby 1.8.2 
(?).  I downloaded ruby-1.8.3.tar.gz, compiled it with --enable- 
shared, and installed it under /usr/local.

I went through /usr/bin and /usr/lib and archived away all of the  
Apple bins and libs.  Then I installed RubyGems.  The install of  the  
rake gem went fine, but the rails install bombed out with a segfault.

I have found that it crashes while installing a gem, but not every  
time.  For example, here I install activesupport OK, then uninstall  
it, then try again, at which point it fails:

> plinth:~ evansj$ sudo gem install activesupport
> Attempting local installation of ''activesupport''
> Local gem file not found: activesupport*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of ''activesupport''
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Successfully installed activesupport-1.2.3
> Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.2.3...
>
> plinth:~ evansj$ sudo gem uninstall activesupport
> Attempting to uninstall gem ''activesupport''
> Successfully uninstalled activesupport version 1.2.3
>
> plinth:~ evansj$ sudo gem install activesupport
> Attempting local installation of ''activesupport''
> Local gem file not found: activesupport*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of ''activesupport''
> Successfully installed activesupport-1.2.3
> Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.2.3...
>
>
> RDoc failure in lib/active_support/dependencies.rb at or around  
> line 125 column 49
>
> Before reporting this, could you check that the file
> you''re documenting compiles cleanly--RDoc is not a
> full Ruby parser, and gets confused easily if fed
> invalid programs.
>
> The internal error was:
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     wrong instance allocation

The error message changes.  Here''s another example:
> RDoc failure in lib/active_support/core_ext/time/calculations.rb at  
> or around line 29 column 56
>
> Before reporting this, [...]
>
> The internal error was:
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NameError)
>     uninitialized constant RubyToken::TkReading2TokenNoKey

The computer is a PowerBook with 1.5GB RAM.  Every other application  
works fine and the machine is stable, so I''m fairly certin
it''s not a
hardware problem (my first thought when I got the segfault).

I tried the preview of 1.8.4 with the same result.

plinth:~ evansj$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-10-29) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
plinth:~ evansj$ gem -v
0.8.11


Apple''s ruby worked great, apart from switchtower.


Jon

Hi All,

On 30 Nov 2005, at 21:08, Jon Evans wrote:
> I''m hoping someone has seen this error before and can advise me.
Obviously I''m in a minority here...

For the benefit of Google, I seem to now have a stable system after  
configuring ruby like this:

./configure --enable-shared --enable-pthread

Without the --enable-pthread, it seemed to work fine but I got those  
weird errors thrown by gem install.  Also, switchtower can now  
connect to my server over ssh (it used to hang).

Jon

I have been experiencing this same issue I am going to reconfig ruby
in hopes of making it better... I too am on Tiger with a hand built
ruby/gems/fcgi

So, I feel your pain :)
Chris

On 12/1/05, Jon Evans <jon.evans-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On 30 Nov 2005, at 21:08, Jon Evans wrote:
>
> > I''m hoping someone has seen this error before and can advise
me.
>
> Obviously I''m in a minority here...
>
> For the benefit of Google, I seem to now have a stable system after
> configuring ruby like this:
>
> ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pthread
>
> Without the --enable-pthread, it seemed to work fine but I got those
> weird errors thrown by gem install.  Also, switchtower can now
> connect to my server over ssh (it used to hang).
>
> Jon
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