Robby on Rails

I dealt with the same problem on debian. Here is my little how to for debian users:

http://dev.hubiquity.fr/2008/6/3/avoid-rails-troubles-with-ruby-1-8-7-under-debian

david

Use this Portfile http://pastie.org/220010 to get Ruby 1.8.6-p230.

Thanks for the note. We have some small Rails 2.0.x projects which seem to be working fine on Ruby 1.8.7, but there’s definitely some bustedness going on with TestUnit. Exceptions… everywhere :(

Thanks. I ended up giving up on Macports due to the problems with Ruby 1.8.7.

Btw, Robby, is something up with your feed? In Newsfire (my RSS reader), I get nothing, and sometimes when I go to your feed url, no posts are shown.

I ended up too, thank you!

me too

Fantastic—these instructions worked like a charm.

Plagiarism! http://journal.bitshaker.com/articles/2007/10/20/install-old-versions-of-ports-using-macports/

This is exactly what I am looking for today, but I am running into a fetch problem on OS X 10.4.11:

chip-castles-powerbook-g4-17:/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/lang/ruby deploy$ sudo port install rb-rubygems ruby -> Fetching ruby -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://xyz.lcs.mit.edu/pub/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/lang/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.easynet.be/ruby/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org/pub/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.iDaemons.org/pub/mirror/ftp.ruby-lang.org/ruby/1.8 -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/ruby -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ -> Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/ruby Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ruby Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Any suggestions for fixing this fetch issue?

Thanks!

not sure it works here… it gives me the following warning:

Warning: /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf specifies invalid source 'file:///Users/Shared/dports and create that directory', ignored.

just started it with the following command:

 sudo port install ruby@1.8.6-p114 rb-rubygems rb-termios rb-mysql swig

because without the @ it tried to install 1.8.7 anyway

I did not work in the end. But I know why: not enough coffee!

I copied all the line “file:///Users/Shared/dports and create that directory”

You should at a line break to your instructions my friend.

sudo port install ruby  rb-rubygems rb-termios rb-mysql swig
--->  Fetching ruby
--->  Attempting to fetch ruby-1.8.6-p114.tar.gz from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/ruby/1.8
[...]

thanks!

Hey, I had some weirdness on rails since upgrading my Ubuntu to 8.10 as well…

Then…

sudo port activate autoconf

?

I followed the procedure step by step, rigorously and several times, but MacPorts seems ignored the portfile in /Users/Shared/dports and install tirelessly ruby 1.8.7-p72_2+thread_hooks …

I’m exhausted :-(

Arrgh !!!

I add my dports directory below rsync line and no above …

@Matthew Fallshaw good remark.

This worked wonderfully. Now we’re moving to Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.2.2

How do I undo this so I can get back to the default package?

maybe anybody can help me here

i have installed ruby 1.8.7 with macport and after installtaion i update hte rubygems and installed rails mongrel rmagick and mysql .. now i create a rails app .. it work but when i want start it .. the terminal tell me : rubygems ? what… i reinstall rubygems ( i download it install it again and now the terminal tell me by starting the application i should install rails2.2.2 ! what is here wrong?

i could start later my application but i had to reinstall all gems again. rails mongrel rmagick and mysql

Is my installtion wrong or is these normal..

This is awesome, but how do I find out which revision number I need for my desired patchlevel? The current rev on svn.macports.org is 50160, I need patchlevel 287, which as far as I can tell is somewhere between your 36429 and macports’ insane 50160. IIRC svn uses a global commit number, so that 15K-commit distance may or may not even cover any real territory.

Ugh, you have to go here:

http://trac.macports.org/log/trunk/dports/lang/ruby/Portfile

Where you will discover they jumped straight from 1.8.6 p114 to 1.8.7.

I don’t see the sense in that, but they must have had some kind of reason. Anyway thanks – I’ll use this to fix my install.

i have ruby version 1.8.6 and rails 2.2.2 .i need to run my app with mysql or postgrisql but I can’t i have a problem with gem mysql i tried your solution but not less…

mac os tiger (sys) someone have any ideas because i need a help .thx

Not sure when this happened, but you can now do “port install ruby186”