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!