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I''ve followed the tutorial and just don''t get it. How do I connect my ruby/rails sample app to my postgres database. I did follow step 1-4 of the tutorial, I go to step 5: (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TutorialStepFive) and try the "rake" commmand and get this: rake aborted! no such file to load -- postgres so I ran with -trace and get this:

I am trying to install some application using gem, but I keep on getting the error. I tried with ''gem clean'' and ''gem update''. The latter gives the following error (the same error is replicable when I try any ruby applications): # gem update --debug Exception `Errno::ENOENT'' at /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/config_file.rb:51 - No such file or

I have installed Ruby and Apache, but when tried to install Rails (sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies) I have got an error: INFO: `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed INFO: use --ignore-dependencies to install only the gems you list ERROR: While executing gem ... (URI::InvalidURIError) the scheme http does not accept registry part: :8080 (or bad hostname?)

Ok, I went to the "Get Ruby on Rails ..." web page and followed directions. When I get to the step where I''m to do this: gem install rails --include-dependencies I get this error: ERROR: While executing gem ... (SocketError) getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname. Here is my configuration, Win XP Pro Running commands in a cygwin "bash" sh. And I

You are right it's an DirectX issue and it's easy to fix. If you install the stand alone version you have to update DirectX. I had the same Problem under Windows. You can download the DirectX 9c Update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3b170b25-abab-4bc3-ae91-50ceb6d8fa8d

I was trying to install R on a unix server. Because of a firewall i can't install biocLite for working with Bioconductor. With windows it wasn't a problem. I used the option '--internet2' to bypass the firewall. I don't have any idea, how to do it with unix. I tried to set my proxy >Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http...:8080")

I keep getting this error while trying to run gem update: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename(SocketError) I''m on: gem --version is 0.9.2 Any Ideas what is causing this??? Thanks for any help... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

Super meat boy crashes on startup with the following message I've installed vcrun2008 and direct x, i'm not sure if this is a wine problem or a super meat boy problem, can any users with more know how than me tell me with this output? Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 40800 Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561201696194287 [API loaded no] fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW

Hello people... In the rails2.pdf Dave T says: Rails works with the DB2, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres,... The database drivers are all written in C and are primarily distributed in source form. Then he lists this site: http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/ Then he says, There is a pure-Ruby version of the Postgres adapter available. Download postgres-pr from the Ruby-DBI page at

Hi, I am having troubles sourcing a file from our local network from R. It looks like this file are not properly accessed by 'source', even they can be downloaded with download.file. (See below my settings and some tests I did). I ended up with a work around, but I would like to understand what is going on. Doesn't source/readLines uses the same mechanism as download.file to

I''m starting to look at postgres because I''m going to need it for its GIS extensions. But I run in into a problem when trying to install the ruby-postgres gem. I get this error Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ruby-postgres: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. blah blah blah etc postgres.c:31: error: conflicting types

This does seem to fix my problem: > Sys.getenv("http_proxy") http_proxy "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com/" > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r') description "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES" class

Hi Thanks once again for your help, I do appreciate it..... however.... Here is what I get with your test.... (under tcsh - i normally use bash, but I will keep everything the same) users/mwatson> env http_proxy=http://wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080/ R >options(internet.info=0) >update.packages() trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to

Hi, I''m having difficulty installing the "postgres" gem. postgres-pr installed fine, but whenever I run: sudo gem install postgres I get: ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.1 for inspection. I''ve had a bit of a poke around, and

For the record. -----Original Message----- From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:21 PM To: Warnes, Gregory R Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch' Subject: RE: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy The port is not supposed to be required, so rather than fix the docs can anyone fix the problem? On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Warnes, Gregory R

Hello, I am using R version 1.8.1 on a linux machine (Suse 8.2.). I have problems to use readLines() with urls. This seems to be a problem with our proxy-server. Downloading files work with download.file() with wget but not without: > download.file(url = "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES", destfile = "test.txt", method = "wget", cacheOK = FALSE)

Hi there, I''m a new to Rails and to Ruby too. I hope you can help with what hopefully is a simple installation problem. I have successfully installed version: C:\>ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] I have successfully installed gem: C:\>gem --version 0.8.11 When I try to install Rails i get the following error: C:\>gem install rails --include-dependencies

Hello, I''m getting an URI::InvalidURIError in my controller when I use german characters in the uri. Google accepts them but open-uri not. How to encode them? That''s my controller simplified: def index require ''open-uri'' address = "Bürgerstraße+68+01127+Dresden" api_key = "my api key" json =

Yum using proxy that requires authentication and a Password that contains the two characters \/ fails normally I can get yum to work with a proxy that requires authentication when required by doing something like http_proxy=http://<my username>:<my password>@<proxy server>:<proxy server port> export http_proxy or by filling in the appropriate information in yum.conf.

Hey Guys, I''m trying to mock the Rails Logger for the following code: ... rescue TimeoutError => error $logger.error("#{self.name} Timeout for #{path}: #{error}") and return rescue SocketError => error $logger.error("#{self.name} SocketError for #{path}: #{error}") and return rescue StandardError => error