Rails - Jun 2006 - RoR on mac OS tiger 10.4.6 latest n greatest?

hi, ive had some trouble trying to install RoR on tiger. during my 
google search i came across many different installs.. some using apache, 
lighttpd, or webricks for the web server,,,,,some are using sqlite, or 
mysql....now ive tried all and it came to a point where im sure i had 
multiple libraries etc...installed and everything was not working right 
compared to my ubuntu install of Ror. so do you guys think that the 
installation of RoR using 
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger 
is the best out there?


thanks.


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i found james duncan davidson''s article "Sandboxing Rails with
Darwin
Ports":
    http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox

to be excellent and left me with a development environment that i could
easily upgrade...

On 6/4/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
> hi, ive had some trouble trying to install RoR on tiger. during my
> google search i came across many different installs.. some using apache,
> lighttpd, or webricks for the web server,,,,,some are using sqlite, or
> mysql....now ive tried all and it came to a point where im sure i had
> multiple libraries etc...installed and everything was not working right
> compared to my ubuntu install of Ror. so do you guys think that the
> installation of RoR using
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
> is the best out there?
>
>
> thanks.
>
>
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hi thanks for your response. my next question, what do you use for 
examining your database? any gui tools you recomend for mysql5?

also, i used webbrick on ubuntu...how do you go about starting and 
stopping lightpd? and must you run the mysql5 server everytime you use 
ror or does it automatically come up?


unknown wrote:
> i found james duncan davidson''s article "Sandboxing Rails
with Darwin
> Ports":
>     http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox
> 
> to be excellent and left me with a development environment that i could
> easily upgrade...

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for poking and proding at mysql, i would recommend you have a look at
CocoaMySQL[1] and YourSQL[2]. undoubtedly you could search macupdate and
find numerous other tools, but these are the ones that i have taken to.

you should be able to use webbrick on os x just as you had on ubuntu but if
you''d like to use lighttpd you can easily install it via darwinports.
there
is a launchd item for it floating around as well. mongrel is an option as
well.

if you install mysql5 from darwinports, it has a server variant which will
create a launchd item for it, otherwise you will have to launch and quit
mysql by hand -- you should only need to do this once per boot.

cheers,
jean-pierre



[1] cocoamysql - be sure to grab the most recent beta 0.7b3, it has been a
while (years?) since their last official release and the beta adds quite a
bit of functionality.
http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/beta.php

[2] yoursql - http://yoursql.ludit.it/



On 6/4/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
>
> hi thanks for your response. my next question, what do you use for
> examining your database? any gui tools you recomend for mysql5?
>
> also, i used webbrick on ubuntu...how do you go about starting and
> stopping lightpd? and must you run the mysql5 server everytime you use
> ror or does it automatically come up?
>
>
> unknown wrote:
> > i found james duncan davidson''s article "Sandboxing
Rails with Darwin
> > Ports":
> >     http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox
> >
> > to be excellent and left me with a development environment that i
could
> > easily upgrade...
>
>
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I personally like YourSQL (http://yoursql.ludit.it/) but many others
like CocoaSQL.
I simply use webrick for development on my mac. Don''t see why you
should change that.

MySQL does not start automatically with RoR since it is not really
related to RoR. However it''s just started at bootup and you should not
need to start it manually or shut it down for any reason.

On 6/5/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
> hi thanks for your response. my next question, what do you use for
> examining your database? any gui tools you recomend for mysql5?
>
> also, i used webbrick on ubuntu...how do you go about starting and
> stopping lightpd? and must you run the mysql5 server everytime you use
> ror or does it automatically come up?
>
>
> unknown wrote:
> > i found james duncan davidson''s article "Sandboxing
Rails with Darwin
> > Ports":
> >     http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox
> >
> > to be excellent and left me with a development environment that i
could
> > easily upgrade...
>
>
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hi everyone, thanks for everyone with the reply. i will follow 
http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox since after browsing 
on google, it seems that the hivelogic tutorial is gicing some problems 
to users. so i guess as of now, this one from duncan may be the latest 
and greatest for RoR on tiger?

thank all!





J?n Borg??rsson wrote:
> I personally like YourSQL (http://yoursql.ludit.it/) but many others
> like CocoaSQL.
> I simply use webrick for development on my mac. Don''t see why you
> should change that.
> 
> MySQL does not start automatically with RoR since it is not really
> related to RoR. However it''s just started at bootup and you should
not
> need to start it manually or shut it down for any reason.
> 
> On 6/5/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>> > i found james duncan davidson''s article "Sandboxing
Rails with Darwin
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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> 
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On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:59 PM, bbqtree wrote:
> hi everyone, thanks for everyone with the reply. i will follow
> http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox since after  
> browsing
> on google, it seems that the hivelogic tutorial is gicing some  
> problems
> to users. so i guess as of now, this one from duncan may be the latest
> and greatest for RoR on tiger?
Well, I''m not sure what you''ve been seeing in your Google
searches,
but I''ve used the Hivelogic tutorial to install Ruby, Rails and MySQL  
on well over a dozen Macs, from 10.3.9 all the way up to 10.4.6. I''ve  
yet to have any serious problems using the Hivelogic method. The  
worst I''ve seen are one or two of the expected errors that he  
mentions on the page, and I think that only happened once.

I''m not trying to knock the other procedures, I''m sure the  
DarwinPorts package management system is great for all of those that  
use it (I''m not a DP user), but I like knowing that I''ve
downloaded
the latest source, for each of my Ruby/Rails stack, and built them  
myself. Obviously, that''s not for every Mac OS X user, so everyone  
should go with the method that they are most comfortable with. But if  
you have any Unix build experience, or you''re really handy with the  
command-line, I really don''t think you can do better than the  
Hivelogic method...

-Brian

hi brian, thanks for the reply. i guess my main concern, since i am new 
to all this, if something was to go wrong during the installation for 
me, how can i uninstall or undo the instalations of lightpd, mysql, 
etc... when using darwin ports, you can do port uninstall
''name'' and
will delete all the libraries etc...does tiger have something similiar? 
when i had RoR up and running on ubuntu, i just call apt-get 
install/uninstall ''name of program''...thanks.

Brian Hughes wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:59 PM, bbqtree wrote:
>> hi everyone, thanks for everyone with the reply. i will follow
>> http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/04/portsandbox since after  
>> browsing
>> on google, it seems that the hivelogic tutorial is gicing some  
>> problems
>> to users. so i guess as of now, this one from duncan may be the latest
>> and greatest for RoR on tiger?
> 
> Well, I''m not sure what you''ve been seeing in your Google
searches,
> but I''ve used the Hivelogic tutorial to install Ruby, Rails and
MySQL
> on well over a dozen Macs, from 10.3.9 all the way up to 10.4.6.
I''ve
> yet to have any serious problems using the Hivelogic method. The
> worst I''ve seen are one or two of the expected errors that he
> mentions on the page, and I think that only happened once.
> 
> I''m not trying to knock the other procedures, I''m sure
the
> DarwinPorts package management system is great for all of those that
> use it (I''m not a DP user), but I like knowing that I''ve
downloaded
> the latest source, for each of my Ruby/Rails stack, and built them
> myself. Obviously, that''s not for every Mac OS X user, so everyone
> should go with the method that they are most comfortable with. But if
> you have any Unix build experience, or you''re really handy with
the
> command-line, I really don''t think you can do better than the
> Hivelogic method...
> 
> -Brian

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On Jun 8, 2006, at 09:40 PM, bbqtree wrote:
> hi brian, thanks for the reply. i guess my main concern, since i am  
> new
> to all this, if something was to go wrong during the installation for
> me, how can i uninstall or undo the instalations of lightpd, mysql,
> etc...
To be honest, I don''t know what problems you would have that would  
cause you to feel you need to rip out the installed software. As for  
undoing an installation, for standard Unix builds all the "problems"  
that you run into happen during the configure and make stages. Only  
after the particular piece of software has been successfully built,  
do you then run the make install command which moves the newly built  
binary files to their correct locations. If you had problems along  
the way, they would happen long before you actually install the built  
piece of software.
> when using darwin ports, you can do port uninstall ''name''
and
> will delete all the libraries etc...does tiger have something  
> similiar?
> when i had RoR up and running on ubuntu, i just call apt-get
> install/uninstall ''name of program''...thanks.
What you are referring to there are "package manager" systems, like  
the RPM system that''s part of RedHat Linux. Those package managers  
are great for downloading and installing pre-built binaries. In those  
processes, you could run into an installation problem that you would  
need a way to back out of, which is why all the package manager  
systems I''ve seen come with some kind of uninstall. When it comes to  
building the software packages from their raw source code, things  
just tend to work differently. At least, that''s always been my  
experience, but I don''t make any claims at being a system  
administrator. I''ve been known to fake it, somewhat convincingly, in  
the past, but I''m a Webmaster and web app developer, so my view of  
system administration tasks is obviously colored by my limited range  
of expertise.

And, of course, as I said in my last message, if the package managers  
work for you, that''s great. They clearly work for many people out  
there and are often times the only way to go if you need to install  
software that your current system doesn''t have the necessary pieces  
to build from scratch.

-Brian

On 6/8/06, Brian Hughes <brianvh@alum.dartmouth.org>
wrote:
>
> To be honest, I don''t know what problems you would have that would
> cause you to feel you need to rip out the installed software.

man, some good fortune you must have - mind sharing your world cup picks? =)
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On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:45 PM, jeanpierre@gmail.com wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Brian Hughes <brianvh@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:
> To be honest, I don''t know what problems you would have that would
> cause you to feel you need to rip out the installed software.
>
> man, some good fortune you must have - mind sharing your world cup  
> picks? =)
Sure, as soon as I win the Powerball! :)

I''m far from being touched by God, or anything. But I''ll
certainly
stand by building from source over using a package manager. Doesn''t  
mean that''s what you should do. Obviously, if you''ve had
experiences
where needing to rip installed software out was necessary, then  
having installed that software through a package manager would  
certainly make that task easier. Just because I haven''t had to do  
that doesn''t mean that I''ve never had install or compatibility
problems with built-from-source software. If that''s the impression  
that I gave, then I apologize for my unintended exuberance...

-Brian

On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:40 PM, bbqtree wrote:
>
> hi brian, thanks for the reply. i guess my main concern, since i am  
> new
> to all this, if something was to go wrong during the installation for
> me, how can i uninstall or undo the instalations of lightpd, mysql,
> etc... when using darwin ports, you can do port uninstall
''name'' and
> will delete all the libraries etc...does tiger have something  
> similiar?
> when i had RoR up and running on ubuntu, i just call apt-get
> install/uninstall ''name of program''...thanks.
I just posted instructions a few weeks ago for installing Darwin  
Ports, Ruby, Rails, gems, PostgreSQL, etc...

http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/05/29/install-ruby-rails- 
and-postgresql-on-osx

This is the same approach that almost everybody at PLANET ARGON  
follows for getting their development setup.

-Robby

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PLANET ARGON, LLC
Ruby on Rails Development, Consulting & Hosting

www.planetargon.com
www.robbyonrails.com

+1 503 445 2457
+1 877 55 ARGON [toll free]
+1 815 642 4968 [fax]

i was just giving you a rough time of it =)

i use darwinports because i am lazy. i am always looking to save time and i
enjoy having something other than my memory manage
building/installing/updating/removing the glut of common third party
projects on my machines. it can really expedite setting up a new machine or
keeping others in sync. it makes me really happy to know that i can easily
remove an installed port without hunting about, wondering where some project
spewed items (info files, man pages, headers, libraries) all over my
filesystem.

certainly darwinports has its share of oddities, ''isms, broken ports
and
sometimes lags the bruised and bloody edge (the vim 7 port still isn''t
pushed to the public yet) but if it gets me 70% of the way, then that is
work that i do not have to do.

perhaps interesting is that darwinports installs from locally built sources
and not from precompiled binaries - that may have been abandon.

cheers,
jean-pierre




On 6/8/06, Brian Hughes <brianvh@alum.dartmouth.org>
wrote:
>
> Sure, as soon as I win the Powerball! :)
>
> I''m far from being touched by God, or anything. But I''ll
certainly
> stand by building from source over using a package manager.
Doesn''t
> mean that''s what you should do. Obviously, if you''ve had
experiences
> where needing to rip installed software out was necessary, then
> having installed that software through a package manager would
> certainly make that task easier. Just because I haven''t had to do
> that doesn''t mean that I''ve never had install or
compatibility
> problems with built-from-source software. If that''s the impression
> that I gave, then I apologize for my unintended exuberance...
>
> -Brian
>
> _______________________________________________
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+1 for Hivelogic.  I''ve used it several times now on several macs and 
never had a problem.  As regards ''cleanup'' it has the
advantage of
putting everything into /usr/local which, going out on a limb here, is 
likely to be empty for you if you''re newbie enough to need the
hivelogic
tutorial (I very much count myself in that camp).  That means you can 
just blow away /usr/local and you''re back to square one.

The one thing the Hivelogic tutorial is missing is installing the ruby 
docs for use with ri (sudo make install-doc after sudo make install).  I 
mailed Dan about it and he says it''ll be in the next update.

Alan

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I''m jumping in a little late I think, but this is the simplest method
to
use for installing on mac osx: 
http://www.nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/29/an-even-better-way-to-build-ruby-rails-lighttpd-and-mysql-on-tiger
 I have used this script on both ppc and my macbook pro with NO 
problems.

I personally use Navicat for mac for mysql administration, but it''s not
free.  I think I paid around 90 bucks for it but it works flawlessly.

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hi everyone. i will give the installation a shot later tonight or first
thing tommorow morning and let you guys know how it goes! i hope all
goes well!

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hi, i have encountered i think my first problem when installing the 
mysql pref pane? i get this msg when trying to start mysql pane..

You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this computer. Contact the 
developer of this software for a newer version.

?

any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks

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Remove it from your /User/username/Library/Preference Panes. The go to
the install DMG and doubleclick on it. It should install
automatically.

On 6/10/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
> hi, i have encountered i think my first problem when installing the
> mysql pref pane? i get this msg when trying to start mysql pane..
>
> You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this computer. Contact the
> developer of this software for a newer version.
>
> ?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks
>
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Sounds like pref panes cannot be handled via Rosetta.

It''s a guess, but I''m pretty confident in it.

I seriously doubt you actually need the pref pane.

-- 
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On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:31 AM, bbqtree wrote:
> hi, i have encountered i think my first problem when installing the
> mysql pref pane? i get this msg when trying to start mysql pane..
>
> You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this computer. Contact the
> developer of this software for a newer version.
>
> ?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks
>
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the purpose of prefpane is just starting and stopping the mysql server 
right?


Tom Mornini wrote:
> Sounds like pref panes cannot be handled via Rosetta.
> 
> It''s a guess, but I''m pretty confident in it.
> 
> I seriously doubt you actually need the pref pane.
> 
> --
> -- Tom Mornini

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a bit more information might be helpful -

- hardware config
- OS version
- mysql version (and architecture)

what does the console say after you attempt to load the preference pane?


On 6/10/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
> hi, i have encountered i think my first problem when installing the
> mysql pref pane? i get this msg when trying to start mysql pane..
>
> You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this computer. Contact the
> developer of this software for a newer version.
>
> ?
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks
>
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i am running tiger 10.4.6 on mac book pro.
i am installing MySQL 4.1 package for OS X PPC preferance pane.

when i try to start the mysql pref pane a windows pops up saying

"preference error You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this 
computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version."



unknown wrote:
> a bit more information might be helpful -
> 
> - hardware config
> - OS version
> - mysql version (and architecture)
> 
> what does the console say after you attempt to load the preference pane?

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bingo.

you have an x86 machine and installed the ppc version of mysql - it would be
run through rosetta which really isn''t what you want. it sounds as
though
the preference pane (built for ppc) isn''t rosetta savvy.

i would recommend grabbing a native (x86 compiled) version of mysql,
building your own by hand or using darwinports (which builds from source).

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html


On 6/10/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
>
> i am running tiger 10.4.6 on mac book pro.
> i am installing MySQL 4.1 package for OS X PPC preferance pane.
>
> when i try to start the mysql pref pane a windows pops up saying
>
> "preference error You cannot open MySQL preferences pane on this
> computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version."
>
>
>
> unknown wrote:
> > a bit more information might be helpful -
> >
> > - hardware config
> > - OS version
> > - mysql version (and architecture)
> >
> > what does the console say after you attempt to load the preference
pane?
>
>
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hey mr.unknown thanks!...

since now mysql is installed in usr/local, all i have to do is delete 
the mysql folder and reinstall the proper version?

unknown wrote:
> bingo.
> 
> you have an x86 machine and installed the ppc version of mysql - it 
> would be
> run through rosetta which really isn''t what you want. it sounds as
> though
> the preference pane (built for ppc) isn''t rosetta savvy.
> 
> i would recommend grabbing a native (x86 compiled) version of mysql,
> building your own by hand or using darwinports (which builds from 
> source).
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html

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please disregard, i went on google and found the command line that shows 
hidden files and folders in finder. went to usr/local and just moved all 
the mysql stuff to thrash. downloaded the proper version and reinstalled 
everything. preference pane is working now. thanks all who responded. 
now i will attempt my first rails app.

bbqtree wrote:
> 
> 
> hey mr.unknown thanks!...
> 
> since now mysql is installed in usr/local, all i have to do is delete 
> the mysql folder and reinstall the proper version?
> 
> unknown wrote:
>> bingo.
>> 
>> you have an x86 machine and installed the ppc version of mysql - it 
>> would be
>> run through rosetta which really isn''t what you want. it
sounds as
>> though
>> the preference pane (built for ppc) isn''t rosetta savvy.
>> 
>> i would recommend grabbing a native (x86 compiled) version of mysql,
>> building your own by hand or using darwinports (which builds from 
>> source).
>> 
>> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html

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sure, assuming there isn''t anything other than your mysql install in
your
/usr/local folder you could delete it in full. i think it installs into a
subdirectory though, you might be able to get away with only deleting
/usr/local/mysql*

On 6/10/06, bbqtree <none@none.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> hey mr.unknown thanks!...
>
> since now mysql is installed in usr/local, all i have to do is delete
> the mysql folder and reinstall the proper version?
>
> unknown wrote:
> > bingo.
> >
> > you have an x86 machine and installed the ppc version of mysql - it
> > would be
> > run through rosetta which really isn''t what you want. it
sounds as
> > though
> > the preference pane (built for ppc) isn''t rosetta savvy.
> >
> > i would recommend grabbing a native (x86 compiled) version of mysql,
> > building your own by hand or using darwinports (which builds from
> > source).
> >
> > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html
>
>
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