govkit gem install problem
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Jeffrey G. Johnson
Dec 11, 2011, 12:40:00 PM12/11/11
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Hello to all.
I'm a novice to ruby and to rails, so this may be a very silly
question. But if anyone can shed some light I'd much appreciate it.
when trying to install the govkit gem I got the following output:
Fetching: activesupport-3.0.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: active_support-3.0.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: nokogiri-1.5.0.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Fetching: multi_xml-0.4.1.gem (100%)
Fetching: httparty-0.8.1.gem (100%)
When you HTTParty, you must party hard!
Fetching: fastercsv-1.5.4.gem (100%)
Fetching: govkit-0.7.1.gem (100%)
ERROR: Error installing govkit:
govkit requires govkit (>= 0)
Is govkit actually requiring itself? Is this a problem with my
installation/configuration, or a problem internal to the govkit gem?
Here is a little info on my config
ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10.8.0]
gem --version
1.8.11
I'm running on Mac OSX 10.6.8
Thanks,
Jeff Johnson
David Moore
Dec 12, 2011, 7:01:56 PM12/12/11
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Hi Jeff, David with OpenGovernment here, thanks for posting your question. I just posted an update to the main OpenGovernment development list, excerpted below ::
Big picture: our non-profit PPF is currently fundraising for further development of the site and rolling out to more U.S. states & cities in 2012. Our initial development grant from our partners the Sunlight Foundation ran out in summer 2011, and we had an amicable separation with Carl Tashian, PPF's former Director of Technology and the programmer who assembled the terrific open-source technology behind OpenGovernment. We aim to hire another lead programmer for OG & GovKit as early as possible next year and to build-up our open-source volunteer community... we'd love for this to be a thriving, remixable project for user-friendly transparency at all levels of government.
If you're reading this and can offer contacts with charitable foundations or other potential funding partners for OG, please help us grow -- feel free to circulate our not-for-profit, open-source / open-data / open-gov / open standards funding prospectus. We're very excited to reach more states & cities, test a slew of planned user interface tweaks, and highlight more money-in-politics data (e.g. please see our wish-list from this beta version). We have some good funding leads and most importantly, a great piece of software (GovKit) and web app (OG) and community (on OC & OG & #opengov generally) upon which to build.
If you're a programmer who can volunteer to help PPF coordinate contributions to our GitHub account -- and help troubleshoot GovKit questions like the above -- please get in touch with me, david @ ppoltitics dot org. For now, more detailed technical assistance beyond those GitHub instructions will need to come, for now, from other software programmers among the 11 members on this development list. I'll post updates as soon as I can as we look to hire a new OG technical lead -- hopefully as early next year as possible.
Anyone have any tips for Jeff's installation issue?
Thanks,
-David
da...@ppolitics.org
m: (917) 753-3462
AIM / Jabber / Skype :: davidmooreppf
http://twitter.com/ppolitics
Big picture: our non-profit PPF is currently fundraising for further development of the site and rolling out to more U.S. states & cities in 2012. Our initial development grant from our partners the Sunlight Foundation ran out in summer 2011, and we had an amicable separation with Carl Tashian, PPF's former Director of Technology and the programmer who assembled the terrific open-source technology behind OpenGovernment. We aim to hire another lead programmer for OG & GovKit as early as possible next year and to build-up our open-source volunteer community... we'd love for this to be a thriving, remixable project for user-friendly transparency at all levels of government.
If you're reading this and can offer contacts with charitable foundations or other potential funding partners for OG, please help us grow -- feel free to circulate our not-for-profit, open-source / open-data / open-gov / open standards funding prospectus. We're very excited to reach more states & cities, test a slew of planned user interface tweaks, and highlight more money-in-politics data (e.g. please see our wish-list from this beta version). We have some good funding leads and most importantly, a great piece of software (GovKit) and web app (OG) and community (on OC & OG & #opengov generally) upon which to build.
If you're a programmer who can volunteer to help PPF coordinate contributions to our GitHub account -- and help troubleshoot GovKit questions like the above -- please get in touch with me, david @ ppoltitics dot org. For now, more detailed technical assistance beyond those GitHub instructions will need to come, for now, from other software programmers among the 11 members on this development list. I'll post updates as soon as I can as we look to hire a new OG technical lead -- hopefully as early next year as possible.
Anyone have any tips for Jeff's installation issue?
Thanks,
-David
da...@ppolitics.org
m: (917) 753-3462
AIM / Jabber / Skype :: davidmooreppf
http://twitter.com/ppolitics
John Lockwood
Jan 7, 2012, 12:26:14 PM1/7/12
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Hi,
I'm a developer and I'll help if I can but so far I'm trying to
troubleshoot the same problem. Could be a windows platform thing -- I
should have a Linux partition up shortly and can see if I encounter it
there. I notice the doc says that one is supposed to run gem install
govkit "from gemcutter", but so far that's unclear. I've installed
the gemcutter gem but that doesn't seem to install anything
executable, so clearly I'm still on a learning curve myself here.
On Dec 12 2011, 4:01 pm, David Moore <d...@ppolitics.org> wrote:
> Hi Jeff, David with OpenGovernment here, thanks for posting your question.
> I just posted an update<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/opengovernment/LO06FgP8OxM/discussion>to the main OpenGovernment
> development list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/opengovernment>,
> excerpted below ::
>
> Big picture: our non-profit PPF <http://www.participatorypolitics.org/> is
> out in summer 2011, and we had an amicable separation with Carl Tashian<http://tashian.com/carl/>,
> open-gov / open standards funding prospectus<http://www.opencongress.org/PPF-funding/>.
I'm a developer and I'll help if I can but so far I'm trying to
troubleshoot the same problem. Could be a windows platform thing -- I
should have a Linux partition up shortly and can see if I encounter it
there. I notice the doc says that one is supposed to run gem install
govkit "from gemcutter", but so far that's unclear. I've installed
the gemcutter gem but that doesn't seem to install anything
executable, so clearly I'm still on a learning curve myself here.
On Dec 12 2011, 4:01 pm, David Moore <d...@ppolitics.org> wrote:
> Hi Jeff, David with OpenGovernment here, thanks for posting your question.
> development list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/opengovernment>,
> excerpted below ::
>
> Big picture: our non-profit PPF <http://www.participatorypolitics.org/> is
> currently fundraising for further development of the site and rolling out
> to more U.S. states & cities in 2012. Our initial development grant from
> our partners the Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com/> ran
> to more U.S. states & cities in 2012. Our initial development grant from
> out in summer 2011, and we had an amicable separation with Carl Tashian<http://tashian.com/carl/>,
> PPF's former Director of Technology and the programmer who assembled the
> terrific open-source technology <http://opengovernment.org/pages/developer>behind OpenGovernment. We aim to hire another lead programmer for OG &
> GovKit as early as possible next year and to build-up our open-source
> volunteer community... we'd love for this to be a thriving, remixable
> project for user-friendly transparency<http://www.slaw.ca/2011/07/29/sites-of-real-engagement-opengovernment...>at all levels of government.
> volunteer community... we'd love for this to be a thriving, remixable
>
> If you're reading this and can offer contacts with charitable foundations
> or other potential funding partners for OG, please help us grow<http://opengovernment.org/pages/help>-- feel free to circulate our not-for-profit, open-source / open-data /
> If you're reading this and can offer contacts with charitable foundations
> open-gov / open standards funding prospectus<http://www.opencongress.org/PPF-funding/>.
> We're very excited to reach more states & cities, test a slew of planned
> user interface tweaks, and highlight more money-in-politics data (e.g.
> please see our wish-list <http://opengovernment.org/pages/wish-list> from
> user interface tweaks, and highlight more money-in-politics data (e.g.
> this beta version). We have some good funding leads and most importantly, a
> great piece of software (GovKit) and web app (OG) and community (on OC & OG
> & #opengov generally) upon which to build.
> *
> great piece of software (GovKit) and web app (OG) and community (on OC & OG
> & #opengov generally) upon which to build.
> If you're a programmer who can volunteer to help PPF coordinate
> contributions to our GitHub <https://github.com/opengovernment/> account --
> and help troubleshoot GovKit questions like the above -- please get in
> touch with me, david @ ppoltitics dot org.* For now, more detailed
John Lockwood
Jan 7, 2012, 12:27:33 PM1/7/12
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Woops, just saw the original environment sentence about Jeff's MacOS.
I'm running 1.9.2 on Windows, so clearly this problem is fairly
widespread.
On Jan 7, 9:26 am, John Lockwood <elitepropertiesbro...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm running 1.9.2 on Windows, so clearly this problem is fairly
widespread.
On Jan 7, 9:26 am, John Lockwood <elitepropertiesbro...@gmail.com>
wrote:
John Lockwood
Jan 7, 2012, 12:58:50 PM1/7/12
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Hi Jeff and David,
Jeff, try this: gem install govkit --version 0.7.1 --force
That did the install OK. Not sure if the "--force" will skip over
other dependencies and cause other problems -- more if I find out.
Jeff, try this: gem install govkit --version 0.7.1 --force
That did the install OK. Not sure if the "--force" will skip over
other dependencies and cause other problems -- more if I find out.
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