Lots of ruby/rails developers are Mac users so I thought this might be
of interest here.
Here are some bumps I''ve had in the upgrade.
1) If you are using any macport installed software, get a list before
you upgrade:
$port installed > myports.txt
You''re going to need to get the latest Xcode and macports and
reinstall al of your ports. I couldn''t get a list of ports after I
reinstalled macports, and port wouldn''t work at all before I did.
Don''t know if this is similar if you use fink, since I
don''t use it.
2) Backup any crucial mysql dbs before the upgrade. Luckily for me I
didn''t have any CRUCIAL dbs.
3) Not exactly sure about this one, but I found that after the
upgrade, I had rubygems 1.2.0!!!!!! and it couldn''t be updated to the
latest. Not sure exactly why, since I ended up installing ruby and
gems from source, which is what I normally do since I prefer to have
control over what version(s) I''m running and not be dependent on
Apple. I do the same thing on my linux system.
My theory as to what happened here was that since I''d bypassed the
ruby install on Leopard by symlinking from /usr/bin to the source
installed binaries, the Snow Leopard install got confused and I ended
up with the old Leopard installed rubygems being active. But I''m not
sure.
Forewarned is forearmed.
--
Rick DeNatale
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
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I''m not sure if it''s still the case as I haven''t tried snow leopard yet but... I noticed with the transition from tiger to leopard that Apple replaced my /usr/local with a new empty directory. Thus everything that used /usr/local as its'' base directory (typically all FSF code) was eliminated from my system. So much for the notion of /usr/local being available for developer use. What I did was to create /opt/local as my new local space and install public software with that as the root. Of course, /opt/local resides on a second drive that is not turned on when installing OSX. Related to snow leopard, does XCode still come with the OSX distribution? On Aug 30, 8:20 am, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Lots of ruby/rails developers are Mac users so I thought this might be > of interest here. > > Here are some bumps I''ve had in the upgrade. > > 1) If you are using any macport installed software, get a list before > you upgrade: > > $port installed > myports.txt > > You''re going to need to get the latest Xcode and macports and > reinstall al of your ports. I couldn''t get a list of ports after I > reinstalled macports, and port wouldn''t work at all before I did. > > Don''t know if this is similar if you use fink, since I don''t use it. > > 2) Backup any crucial mysql dbs before the upgrade. Luckily for me I > didn''t have any CRUCIAL dbs. > > 3) Not exactly sure about this one, but I found that after the > upgrade, I had rubygems 1.2.0!!!!!! and it couldn''t be updated to the > latest. Not sure exactly why, since I ended up installing ruby and > gems from source, which is what I normally do since I prefer to have > control over what version(s) I''m running and not be dependent on > Apple. I do the same thing on my linux system. > > My theory as to what happened here was that since I''d bypassed the > ruby install on Leopard by symlinking from /usr/bin to the source > installed binaries, the Snow Leopard install got confused and I ended > up with the old Leopard installed rubygems being active. But I''m not > sure. > > Forewarned is forearmed. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Rick<richard.t.lloyd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Related to snow leopard, does XCode still come with the OSX > distribution?Yes, it''s on the disk. And easer to find than it was on the Leopard (or maybe it was Tiger) where the additional installs folder was scrolled off the finder view. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
Trausti Thor Johannsson
2009-Aug-30 15:40 UTC
Re: Snow Leopard advice for Ruby/Rails developers
All is broken on my computer after snow leopard. Sphinx doesn''t work, ImageMagick doesn''t, rmagick doesn''t, mysql plugin has failed and quite possibly more things. All besides rails work much better than before. Trausti On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Rick DeNatale<rick.denatale-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Rick<richard.t.lloyd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: >> Related to snow leopard, does XCode still come with the OSX >> distribution? > > Yes, it''s on the disk. And easer to find than it was on the Leopard > (or maybe it was Tiger) where the additional installs folder was > scrolled off the finder view. > > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale > > > >
So I haven''t read too much about the snow leopard changes but is it possible that the executable format (or dynamic link format) has changed? Why would everything stop working? On Aug 30, 10:24 am, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Rick<richard.t.ll...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Related to snow leopard, does XCode still come with the OSX > > distribution? > > Yes, it''s on the disk. And easer to find than it was on the Leopard > (or maybe it was Tiger) where the additional installs folder was > scrolled off the finder view. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
On Aug 30, 8:54 am, Rick <richard.t.ll...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> So I haven''t read too much about the snow leopard changes but is it > possible that the executable format (or dynamic link format) has > changed? Why would everything stop working?For the 64-bit installs of SL, yes. Not the executable format so much as the instruction format and addressing. This is the first major kernel upgrade ... maybe since OSX came out. You''ll have to do some rebuilding. I took a scorched-earth approach and: - Noted which gems I have installed - Wiped out MacPorts completely - Rebuilt mysql - Rebuilt Ruby 1.8.7 (Rails 3 will need this as a minimum) - Rebuilt Ruby 1.9 - Reinstalled rubygems - Installed gems in priority order. I''m waiting for stuff to break before littering my system with unnecessary gems Note that because my Mac is a Macbook Pro, I don''t have any 64-bitness to worry about.> > On Aug 30, 10:24 am, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Rick<richard.t.ll...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > Related to snow leopard, does XCode still come with the OSX > > > distribution? > > > Yes, it''s on the disk. And easer to find than it was on the Leopard > > (or maybe it was Tiger) where the additional installs folder was > > scrolled off the finder view. > > > -- > > Rick DeNatale > > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
Thanks Rick for this warning.... most important should do a clone backup on external hard disk before upgrade... good articles : http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard/ erwin On Aug 30, 2:20 pm, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Lots of ruby/rails developers are Mac users so I thought this might be > of interest here. > > Here are some bumps I''ve had in the upgrade. > > 1) If you are using any macport installed software, get a list before > you upgrade: > > $port installed > myports.txt > > You''re going to need to get the latest Xcode and macports and > reinstall al of your ports. I couldn''t get a list of ports after I > reinstalled macports, and port wouldn''t work at all before I did. > > Don''t know if this is similar if you use fink, since I don''t use it. > > 2) Backup any crucial mysql dbs before the upgrade. Luckily for me I > didn''t have any CRUCIAL dbs. > > 3) Not exactly sure about this one, but I found that after the > upgrade, I had rubygems 1.2.0!!!!!! and it couldn''t be updated to the > latest. Not sure exactly why, since I ended up installing ruby and > gems from source, which is what I normally do since I prefer to have > control over what version(s) I''m running and not be dependent on > Apple. I do the same thing on my linux system. > > My theory as to what happened here was that since I''d bypassed the > ruby install on Leopard by symlinking from /usr/bin to the source > installed binaries, the Snow Leopard install got confused and I ended > up with the old Leopard installed rubygems being active. But I''m not > sure. > > Forewarned is forearmed. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale