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Dang You, Ruby and Rails and All That Other Crap

I thought I found an easy way to get Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and all associated gobbledygook installed and working on my G5. I’m trying to learn Rails - but the setup has been an utter pain. Something is ALWAYS missing, not current, broken, or any number of other crappy things. I’m giving up. At least for a while.

Damn. And here I was hoping to learn something tonight. I ended up spending all my available time goofing around with faulty installs. What a waste of time! Anyone know of a foolproof way to get this garbage put together into something usable so I can get to the process of actually building and learning?

This entry was posted 2 years, 11 months ago on Friday, December 16th, 2005 at 10:51 pm and is filed under Web Design Related. Obligatory RSS 2.0 feed for these comments. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. Matthew asserted:

    I have a PowerMac running 10.4.3 and i had success following the tutorial at Hivelogic. The only hiccup i had was with downloading the files via curl so instead i just used the appropriate ftp commands.

    #  Fri, December 16 2005 @ 11:22 pm (2 years, 11 months ago)

  2. Jeff Smith chimed in with:

    How did you go about installing all the necessary components? Did you follow Dan Benjamin’s tutorial (Hivelogic)?

    There’s also this (Nuby On Rails) somewhat easier method posted by Geoffrey Grosenbach (sp?).

    Or, if you want to escape the native installation altogether, you could give Locomotive a try. It’s by far the easiest way to get going quickly with Rails.

    If you into any questions, feel free to shoot me an email.

    #  Sat, December 17 2005 @ 9:26 am (2 years, 11 months ago)

  3. Jack quipped:

    Have you tried Locomotive?

    http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/

    Just double-click and go.

    #  Sat, December 17 2005 @ 12:09 pm (2 years, 11 months ago)

  4. ryan quoth thusly:

    Thanks for your suggstions. I did the hivelogic thing - and it seemed to work OK, although script/server was still booting WEBrick and when I was trying to do the Rails “Depot” demo (from the book), I got the ol’ “Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model (Product)” error. That meant I had to go hunt for the dang Apple Ruby fix and then reinstall the mySQL gem, at least according to the book). Somewhere in there I couldn’t get things to work. At which point I said, “F^(& this. I’m going to go play some Swoop-to-Nuts“.

    Jack, do I have to uninstall anything before running locomotive? I might just head over there, download, double-click, and hope for the best.

    Thanks again.

    #  Sat, December 17 2005 @ 1:32 pm (2 years, 11 months ago)

  5. Jeff Smith scribbled:

    No uninstallation required, just drop it in Applications and away you go.

    #  Sat, December 17 2005 @ 2:03 pm (2 years, 11 months ago)

  6. ryan uttered:

    In an effort to keep anything from going right this weekend, I installed Locomotive, and I still can’t get it to work. I tried doing exactly what the guy does in the Locomotive Intro Video, and everything goes south right about the time I generate a scaffold. Ugh. I’m just going to wait a few days, let this settle, and then try it again.

    #  Sat, December 17 2005 @ 7:40 pm (2 years, 11 months ago)

  7. ryan uttered:

    Jeff - My coworker Jack just went over some Locomotive setup things at work today, so I’ll be trying it again here in the very near future…like as soon as I get a free minute. Believe me, if I get anything to work I’ll probably write something about it.

    #  Thu, December 29 2005 @ 10:50 pm (2 years, 10 months ago)