Ok, I was able to get rubygems installed in
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8, and rails/CGI still can''t open it.
This is really making my brain itch, if anyone could take a look and
see what stupid thing I''ve missed I would appreciate it.
jh
On 5/30/06, James Hughes <hughes.james@gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I have rubygems installed in my home directory as I''d like to have
> control over gems without requiring root access. I''m trying to
deploy
> a known working rails app on this machine but it falls down at the
> "require ''rubygems''" line in boot.rb. I have
added the path to
> rubygems to LOAD_PATH in environment.rb; this is confirmed by dumping
> $: to a logfile right before the call to require:
>
>
> W, [2006-05-30T11:10:03.040915 #13641] WARN -- :
> ["/home/jhughes/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8",
> "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8",
> "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux",
> "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8",
> "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux", "."]
>
> The contents of that first path in $::
>
> ls -l /home/jhughes/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
> total 28
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jhughes jhughes 492 May 19 16:06 gemconfigure.rb
> drwxr-xr-x 2 jhughes jhughes 4096 May 19 16:06 rubygems
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jhughes jhughes 12304 May 19 16:06 rubygems.rb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jhughes jhughes 131 May 19 16:06 ubygems.rb
>
> I can require rubygems in irb and in console mode, but the apache
> error_log consistently spits out the following:
>
> [Tue May 30 11:10:03 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.112]
> /projects/active/pts/public/current/public/../config/boot.rb:24:in
> `load'': no such file to load --
> /home/jhughes/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb (LoadError)
>
> Obviously the wild card here is Apache, but I haven''t a clue why
it
> can''t open these files. Other ruby libs can be loaded at this
point,
> confirmed by doing "require ''logger''" in order
to dump the contents of
> $: above.
>
> I would really like to maintain control of gems on this machine and
> keep them in my user directory. Any ideas out there why apache
can''t
> see this directory?
>
> thanks,
> jh
>
>
> --
> James Hughes
> Web application developer
> Vancouver, BC
>
> "Developing a coherent political analysis is in many respects
> contingent upon an ability to connect one context to another, a
> process not dissimilar to playing the kid''s game of
dot-to-dot."
> - Ward Churchill, from ''"A Government of
Laws"?''
>
--
James Hughes
Web application developer
Vancouver, BC
"Developing a coherent political analysis is in many respects
contingent upon an ability to connect one context to another, a
process not dissimilar to playing the kid''s game of dot-to-dot."
- Ward Churchill, from ''"A Government of Laws"?''