merb on windows still failing for me

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Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:37:51 AM10/23/08
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I still can't get merb installed on windows because of do_sqlite3

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros>gem install merb -V
HEAD 200 OK: http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8
HEAD 200 OK: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/latest_specs.4.8
HEAD 200 OK: http://gems.github.com/latest_specs.4.8
Installing gem do_sqlite3-0.9.6
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/History.txt
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/LICENSE
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/Manifest.txt
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/README.txt
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/Rakefile
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/TODO
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/do_sqlite3_ext.c
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/extconf.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3/transaction.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3/version.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/do_sqlite3_spec.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/logging_spec.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/quoting_spec.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/spec.opts
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/spec_helper.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/unit/transaction_spec.rb
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing merb:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install merb -V
checking for sqlite3.h... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby
        --with-sqlite3-dir
        --without-sqlite3-dir
        --with-sqlite3-include
        --without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include
        --with-sqlite3-lib
        --without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib


Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/gem_make.out

Heikki

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Oct 23, 2008, 12:17:59 PM10/23/08
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Same problem here. I tried also installing ruby from scratch with one
click installer. I wish my employer would get me mac soon..

Yehuda Katz

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Oct 23, 2008, 12:33:04 PM10/23/08
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Can you try just gem install do_sqlite3? If you're getting the "building native extensions" it means that for some reason it's not getting the Windows version of the gem.

-- Yehuda
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Heikki

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Oct 23, 2008, 12:46:16 PM10/23/08
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Thanks for answer, though I have no idea how to debug this further.

C:\ruby_projects>gem install do_sqlite3
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing do_sqlite3:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

On 23 loka, 19:33, "Yehuda Katz" <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you try just gem install do_sqlite3? If you're getting the "building
> native extensions" it means that for some reason it's not getting the
> Windows version of the gem.
> -- Yehuda
>

Dominic Sisneros

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Can you try just gem install do_sqlite3? If you're getting the "building native extensions" it means that for some reason it's not getting the Windows version of the gem.

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\rails\ldap>gem install do_sqlite3 > gem.tx

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\rails\ldap>more gem.txt
ERROR:  Error installing do_sqlite3:

        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install do_sqlite3

checking for sqlite3.h... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby
        --with-sqlite3-dir
        --without-sqlite3-dir
        --with-sqlite3-include
        --without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include
        --with-sqlite3-lib
        --without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib


Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/gem_make.out

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:06:19 PM10/23/08
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Also, some more information

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\rails\ldap>gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.2.0
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: c:/ruby/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-mswin32-60
  - GEM PATHS:
     - c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - :sources => ["http://gems.rubyforge.org", "http://gems.rubyonrails.org", "http://gems.github.com/"]
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org
     - http://gems.rubyonrails.org
     - http://gems.github.com/

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AND
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\rails\ldap>gem install do_sqlite3 --platform x86-mswin32-60

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing do_sqlite3:

        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install do_sqlite3 --platform x86-mswin32-60

Praveen

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:11:00 PM10/23/08
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Do you have the Visual C/C++ compiler, linker and command line
utilities (like nmake) installed on the Windows box?
If not, you might need to download Windows SDK from M$FT.


On Oct 23, 3:37 am, "Dominic Sisneros" <dsisn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still can't get merb installed on windows because of do_sqlite3
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros>gem install merb -V
> HEAD 200 OK:http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8
> HEAD 200 OK:http://gems.rubyonrails.org/latest_specs.4.8
> HEAD 200 OK:http://gems.github.com/latest_specs.4.8
> Installing gem do_sqlite3-0.9.6
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/History.txt
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/LICENSE
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/Manifest.txt
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/README.txt
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/Rakefile
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/TODO
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/do_sqlite3_ext.c
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/ext/extconf.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3/transaction.­rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/lib/do_sqlite3/version.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/do_sqlite3­_spec.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/logging_sp­ec.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/integration/quoting_sp­ec.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/spec.opts
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/spec_helper.rb
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/do_sqlite3-0.9.6/spec/unit/transaction_spec.­rb

Yehuda Katz

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:16:07 PM10/23/08
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You don't need the Visual C compiler. We released a version of do_sqlite3 that's precompiled. I don't know why it's not getting used.

-- Yehuda

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:16:46 PM10/23/08
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Praveen <prave...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have the Visual C/C++ compiler, linker and command line
utilities (like nmake) installed on the Windows box?
If not, you might need to download Windows SDK from M$FT.

No, from my understanding, merb RC2 was supposed to include a compiled do_sqlite3 for windows users because the compiler and development tools aren't usually part of the system.

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:19:57 PM10/23/08
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
You don't need the Visual C compiler. We released a version of do_sqlite3 that's precompiled. I don't know why it's not getting used.

-- Yehuda

Was this released to rubyforge?  Do I need to use do_sqlite3 from a different source?

gem install do_sqlite3 --source ?????

Michael Klishin

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:27:26 PM10/23/08
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2008/10/23 Dominic Sisneros <dsis...@gmail.com>:

> Was this released to rubyforge?

Merb gems are always released to rubyforge.
--
MK

Matt Aimonetti

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:28:49 PM10/23/08
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Michael Klishin

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2008/10/23 Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com>:

> You don't need the Visual C compiler. We released a version of do_sqlite3
> that's precompiled. I don't know why it's not getting used.
> -- Yehuda

latest released gem is 0.9.6:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/dorb/

is it what RC2 supposed to be using?

(I cannot tell because I always use DM and Merb from Git)
--
MK

Heikki

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Oct 23, 2008, 3:53:33 PM10/23/08
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I managed to get it installed by downloading the gem from
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45428/do_sqlite3-0.9.6-x86-mswin32.gem

my gems now seem to be the latest with the exception of
hpricot (0.6)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.3)

Doing basic app skeleton and running it doesn't work

C:\ruby_projects>merb-gen app merb_test
Generating with app generator:
←[32m [ADDED]←[0m Rakefile
←[32m [ADDED]←[0m app/controllers/application.rb
←[32m [ADDED]←[0m app/controllers/exceptions.rb
←[32m [ADDED]←[0m app/helpers/global_helpers.rb
←[32m [ADDED]←[0m app/models/user.rb
.
.
.
C:\ruby_projects>cd merb_test

C:\ruby_projects\merb_test>merb -i
Loading init file from C:/ruby_projects/merb_test/config/init.rb
Loading C:/ruby_projects/merb_test/config/environments/development.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.8.0/lib/inline.rb:578:in
``': No such file or directory - cl -nologo -LD -
MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -I c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I c:/ruby/
include -Lc:/ruby/lib -o "C:\\Documents and Setting
s\\My Name Here/.ruby_inline/Inline_RawParseTree_fa12.so" "C:/
Documents and Settings/My Name Here/.ruby_inline/Inline_
RawParseTree_fa12.c" -link /LIBPATH:"c:/ruby/lib" /
DEFAULTLIB:"msvcrt-ruby18.lib" /INCREMENTAL:no /EXPORT:Init_Inline_
RawParseTree_fa12 (Errno::ENOENT)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.8.0/lib/
inline.rb:578:in `build'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.8.0/lib/
inline.rb:811:in `inline'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ParseTree-3.0.1/lib/
parse_tree.rb:250
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `gem_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-action-args-0.9.10/
lib/merb-action-args/get_args.rb:1
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `gem_original_require'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:
27:in `require'
... 10 levels...
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-0.9.10/lib/merb-
core.rb:132:in `start'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-0.9.10/bin/merb:
11
from c:/ruby/bin/merb:19:in `load'
from c:/ruby/bin/merb:19

--Heikki
> Your system should gethttp://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45428/do_sqlite3-0.9.6-x86-mswi...

Heikki

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Ok.. some progress

Commented line 1 from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-action-args-0.9.10/lib/merb-action-
args/get_args.rb:1
#require 'parse_tree'

Running merb shows up windows alert window with a mention that
sqlite3.dll is not valid.

Replaced sqlite3.dll with the one from the official package
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_6_4.zip

Running merb => no errors!

--Heikki

(that code modification might not be so good thing?)

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 4:32:02 PM10/23/08
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I managed to get it installed by downloading the gem from

I also managed to install it by downloading it directly but I get an error

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\merb>merb-gen testapp
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem spicycode-rcov (>= 0.8.1.3) (Gem::LoadE
rror)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `each'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem'
        from c:/ruby/bin/merb-gen:18

-------------------------------------------------------------

This is because rspec depends on spicycode-rcov

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\merb>gem specification rspec | grep -20 spicy
authors:
- RSpec Development Team
autorequire:
bindir: bin
cert_chain: []

date: 2008-10-19 00:00:00 -06:00
default_executable:
dependencies:
- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
  name: diff-lcs
  type: :runtime
  version_requirement:
  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
    requirements:
    - - ">="
      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
        version: "0"
    version:
- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
  name: spicycode-rcov
  type: :runtime
  version_requirement:
  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
    requirements:
    - - ">="
      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
        version: 0.8.1.3
    version:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
and spicycode-rcov wants to compile on windows

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\merb>gem install spicycode-rcov

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing spicycode-rcov:

        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install spicycode-rcov
creating Makefile

nmake
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/spicycode-rcov-0.8.1.3.0 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/spicycode-rcov-0.8.1.3.0/ext/rcovrt/gem_make.out

-----------------------------------------------------------
however, rspec doesn't error out on gem install only when I try to run merb-gen
-------------------------------------------------------

C:\Documents and Settings\dominic e sisneros\My Documents\programming\merb>gem install rspec -y
INFO:  `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed
INFO:  use --ignore-dependencies to install only the gems you list
Successfully installed rspec-1.1.9
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rspec-1.1.9...
Installing RDoc documentation for rspec-1.1.9...








Matt Aimonetti

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Oct 23, 2008, 4:35:04 PM10/23/08
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The spicycode issue is documented in the wiki: http://wiki.merbivore.com/faq/spicycode

Parse Tree 2.1.1 is available for windows: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=439&release_id=27467  Try to install it manually. I don't know what's wrong with rubygems, but I'd recommend to upgrade to 1.3

-Matt

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 23, 2008, 4:51:18 PM10/23/08
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattai...@gmail.com> wrote:
The spicycode issue is documented in the wiki: http://wiki.merbivore.com/faq/spicycode

Parse Tree 2.1.1 is available for windows: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=439&release_id=27467  Try to install it manually. I don't know what's wrong with rubygems, but I'd recommend to upgrade to 1.3

Thanks everyone.  I got it working by updating rubygems.  The install still doesn't pick up the do_sqlite3 windows gem but by downloading it and installing it, everything works

 

Heikki

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Oct 23, 2008, 4:53:41 PM10/23/08
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Actually i just downgraded to rubygems 1.2 after reading that 1.3
might have a bug on windows..
Weird.. now only ParseTree-3.0.1 works and only when that require is
commented out.

I'll try 1.3 again later, thanks

--Heikki

JC

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Oct 24, 2008, 9:24:03 AM10/24/08
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From what I can tell, merb-actions-args depends on ParseTree,
ParseTree depends on RubyInline.
and RubyInline requires a local compiler environment on the machine to
do it's 'inlining'

On my machine, commenting out the dependency for merb-action-args lets
me run
merb edge on Windows... though I would like to eventually get that
functionality back.

--JR

Dominic Sisneros

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Oct 24, 2008, 3:33:59 PM10/24/08
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This is what I had to do also. (comment out merb-action-args)

Andrew Kou

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Nov 14, 2008, 9:26:30 PM11/14/08
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I ran into a similar error on Ubuntu, but it probably applies to all
systems
On ubuntu this means you don't have libsqlite3-dev. For windows it's
probably
the equivalent sqlite3 dev libraries.

Yehuda Katz

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Nov 14, 2008, 11:36:33 PM11/14/08
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Unfortunately, on Windows, you will need to have sqlite3.dll in your path. Rubygems doesn't support moving .dlls into the path, which, imho, is a bug in rubygems ;)

-- Yehuda

Julian Leviston

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Nov 14, 2008, 11:44:41 PM11/14/08
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Or, another way of looking at it is that it's a bug in Merb because of Merb's reliance on RubyGems.

This reminds me of when I ring a bank, and someone tells me that even though they're my interface to the bank, they can't update my address details, and they have to redirect me to another person.

Three people later, I get to actually update my address.

Not trying to be a whiner. ;-)

Julian.

Yehuda Katz

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Nov 14, 2008, 11:48:41 PM11/14/08
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The same "bug" exists in Rails too, so it's not the result of Merb's reliance on Rubygems.

-- Yehuda

Julian Leviston

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Nov 14, 2008, 11:54:45 PM11/14/08
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Yes, I know.

It was simply another perspective on it.

If we rely on Ruby, and there's a bug in Ruby, surely that should provide us with impetus to help go up-stream and patch the bug. I'm bringing this from the noob POV, because oftentimes noobs get SO confused... especially when the project relies on, say, 4 other projects, which all have their own slew of issues and bugs.

There wasn't really a point that I was making, just an interesting observation that perhaps bears some thought.

Julian.

Yehuda Katz

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Nov 15, 2008, 12:19:57 AM11/15/08
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We actually have been working with the Rubygems guys on a number of fronts, so hopefully this (and many other issues) will eventually be resolved.

-- Yehuda

Luis Lavena

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Nov 15, 2008, 6:46:27 AM11/15/08
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Yehuda Katz <wyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We actually have been working with the Rubygems guys on a number of fronts,
> so hopefully this (and many other issues) will eventually be resolved.
> -- Yehuda
>

I'm working on a patch to this issue, based on the raised discussion a
bit back on RubyGems mailing list.

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2008-July/003978.html

I'm not fond to PATH alteration, since enabling several gems that
alter it will bomb the ENV size limitation (if no extension to it was
enabled).

This is tricky and I'll not like to be hunted by going the easiest
road with it :-)

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