Re: Complete Newbie needs help!

AndrewO
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:13:48 -0000

Something fundamental is wrong here.  Rails should not be this hard.

First of all, you have installed RubyStack (I asume Bitnami) on your
Mac, which is really not the best idea ever.  OSX comes with ruby and
rails preinstalled.  The only thing you need to install is a
database.  The Bitnami stack is cool for deploying cookie-cutter
installs to clusters of production servers, but is really asking for a
mess of conflicts on a development machine.

I would begin by uninstalling the Bitnami stack.  There is an
uninstaller in the application folder.  Run it, get some tea, then
come back.  The uninstaller will not delete the stack''s directory
because they aim to preserve your data (application/DB data).  So
after running the uninstaller, just drag the whole folder to the
trash.

Next, do the following at a terminal window:

which ruby
ruby -v
which rails
rails -v

You should get back
/usr/bin/ruby
ruby 1.8.7 (on Snow Leopard, maybe different on Leopard)
/usr/bin/rails
Rails 2.2.2 (again on SL, Leopard may be different)

If this checks out, go to mysql.org, downloads, community edition, and
pick the latest .DMG for OSX.  Install.  Install the startup script.
If you are on Leopard then install the preference pane.  If you are on
SL, then go here: http://www.swoon.net/downloads/MySQL.prefPane.zip
and install the 64 bit pref pane.

Next, open up terminal again and do the following:

Leopard:
sudo gem install mysql −− −−with−mysql−config≡/usr/local/mysql/bin/
mysql_config

Snow Leopard:
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql  -- --with-mysql-
config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

(note there are two dashes after ''mysql'' then a space, then
two more
dashes before ''with'')

Crack your knuckles, and in the terminal do the following:

cd
rails testapp -d mysql
cd testapp
script/server

Open up your web browser and go to http://localhost:3000 and see if
you can see the "welcome aboard" message.  If not post back exactly
what happened at which step.

On Sep 11, 10:43 am, "John T."
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> > Hey john,
>
> > How do i make mongrel the default server?
>
> > Brad
>
> Using the default OS X Leopard setup, it should just use mongrel. Double
> check that it is installed:
>
> gem list
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
> ...
>
> mongrel (1.1.5)
>
> ...
> --
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