Hey, nice work here! Very handy.

Thanks Geoff, just what the doctor ordered.

One thing though… running ./script/server still runs Webrick, I thought the latest Rails was supposed to use Lighttpd if it’s installed?

Not sure why this syntax:

sudo gem install mysql——with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

is preferred over this one:

sudo gem install mysql——with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

since the latter will always provide all the right configuration options, including (but not limited to) the path to the installation.

I also have a script that will install ImageMagick / RMagick for Gruff without darwinports / fink. Hmm, which reminds me, I need to send you some screenshots. ;-)

Jamie—

If ./script/server still runs webrick, try the following

1. Type ‘lighttpd’ at the command line. If it doesn’t find the command, you need to make sure that you added /usr/local/bin (and sbin) to your PATH. Close your Terminal window and open a new one to reload those settings.
2. Make sure you have a recent version of Rails. Try ./script/about or ‘rails -v’ and look for a version greater than 0.14.0 (it sounds like you did this).
3. See if Rails copied a lighttpd.conf file into your ./config folder. If not, try one of the previous points, or make your own.

Thanks, in the end I entered the following as lighttpd is sitting in /usr/local/sbin

echo “export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH” >> ~/.bash_profile

Maybe the install path should be set in the shell script?

I am new to both RoR and OS X. Gave the script a shot and got the following on installing the MySQL Gem. Any thoughts? Thanks.

TM5:~/Desktop brian$ sudo gem install mysql——with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysqlAttempting local installation of ‘mysql’ Local gem file not found: mysql*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘mysql’ Building native extensions. This could take a while… 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/mysql-2.7 for inspection. ruby extconf.rb install mysql——with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql\nchecking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lm… yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lz… yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lsocket… no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lnsl… no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out

Can’t take credit for it myself, but I found (via multiple links, now too buried in my FF history file to find) this link that seemed to do the trick for me: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/5b7d897c4316a6d0

What’s the reasoning behing installing both ruby-fcgi from source AND via gems? Only one of those two methods are needed.

Wow that’s awesome! It’s much easier than doing all of that manually. Thanks!

i haven’t seen any information regarding why the latest version of ruby, readline, gems and mysql are not being used. are the current stable versions ‘unstable’ in OS X?

johnny.sainz@gmail.com

After using the hivelogic instructions on two machines in past couple days, I was thinking about making a script as well, but I was too lazy…

My RoR install worked OK, but I wasn’t able to get Lighttpd+FCGI to work before.

So I ran the script.

Now all Ruby scripts (incl. server and about) give me the following error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__’: No such file to load—initializer (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require’ from ./script/../config/boot.rb:16 from ./script/about:2:in `require’ from ./script/about:2

It seems to refer to a require of “initializer”. No idea where to get that. Any body here know?

Thanks!

Blain said: “I also have a script that will install ImageMagick / RMagick for Gruff without darwinports / fink. Hmm, which reminds me, I need to send you some screenshots. ;-)”

Can you put that script up somewhere please? i would really appreciate it. I hate installing image/Rmagick on osx.

Thanks

Curl was broken on my install of Tiger (10.4.3 with updates on a brand-new Powerbook)—downloads would never stop, even after reaching one hundred percent.

The fix was easy: I updated Curl to 7.15.1 and installed it as instructed. Works great now!

Thanks for the great install script, Geoffrey!

ru-ra done manually with trivial changes completed successfully for me (under OSX 10.4.3 Xcode 2.2). But in trying to use gem as a non-root user, I get errors similar to what Tao reported:

mir% sudo gem -v Password:xxxxxx 0.8.11

mir% gem -v /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__’: no such file to load—stringio (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:9 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:6 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:61:in `manage_gems’ from /usr/local/bin/gem:4

I am still having the same problem, that I have got while doing the same thing manually. localhost:3000 works properly but when I create an application, it gives the problem.

Does anybody know how to sort this out;

dyld: NSLinkModule() error dyld: Symbol not found: _rl_completion_matches Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.5.0/readline.bundle Expected in: flat namespace

Trace/BPT trap

Thank you in advance