Need a fresh start...

[jaybray]

I'm a ROR noob who is really frustrated with learning Rails, but I so
very much want to wrap my brain around it.

I'm running Leopard and I've had ROR running for awhile now. I rolled
my own using the Hivelogic Leopard instructions. I really thought I
had everything set up correctly since I've setuo a few test apps and
they seemed to be working.

Unfortunately, I've really screwed something up. My ROR setup is so
screwed I can't even run a rails command from terminal.

Is there a way I can dump my current install of ROR and just roll my
own all over again?

[bill walton]

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 14:08 -0800, jaybray wrote:

> Is there a way I can dump my current install of ROR and just roll my
> own all over again?

Rails is just a Ruby gem (a set of them, really). So assuming your
problem is really with Rails and not your Ruby installation, at the
command line...

1) gem list

Make a copy of everything you've got installed. You can safely get rid
of most of them to get you back to just Ruby. Do not get rid of
'rubygems-update' or 'sources'. These will be needed to rebuild your
installation.

2) gem uninstall <each gem>

When you're done, make sure you've got a working, albeit basic, Ruby
installation. Easiest way, IMO, to do that is irb.

3) gem install <each gem you need to reinstall> -v<the specific version
you want to install>

HTH,
Bill

[Jason Bray]

Before I uninstall/reinstall rails on my Mac, I figure I'll show the error message I get when I try and create a new rails app in Terminal...  maybe it's an easy fix?

when I type "rails new" for example, I get this message:
/usr/local/bin/rails:9:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
    from /usr/local/bin/rails:9

any ideas on what might be wrong?  Thanks...

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[Conrad Taylor]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Jason Bray <jayb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Before I uninstall/reinstall rails on my Mac, I figure I'll show the error message I get when I try and create a new rails app in Terminal...  maybe it's an easy fix?

when I type "rails new" for example, I get this message:
/usr/local/bin/rails:9:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
    from /usr/local/bin/rails:9

any ideas on what might be wrong?  Thanks...

Jason, if your platform is a Mac, then you should have been up and operational within

10 minutes.  Thus, could you provide the following information:

ruby -v

which ruby

gem -v 

which gem

-Conrad

[Jason Bray]

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be easy on a Mac so imagine my frustration...  I know I'm the cause of the problem, I just don't know what I screwed up since I'm so new at this...

ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

which ruby

/usr/local/bin/ruby

gem -v 

/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)

from /usr/local/bin/gem:8

which gem

/usr/local/bin/gem

thanks so much for the assist....

[Bruno Grasselli]

When I changed from leopard to snow leopard I needed to re-install some gems that was using some kind of compiled libraries, such as rmagic and so on. Maybe you have to do the same.

2009/12/15 Jason Bray <jayb...@gmail.com>

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[jemminger]

> *gem -v *

> /usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems
> (LoadError)
> from /usr/local/bin/gem:8
>

> *which gem*
> /usr/local/bin/gem
>

I'm guessing your gem install is broken. I'd try removing/
reinstalling gem.

[jemminger]

You might also look into this: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html

I've never used it though. I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 with:

$ ruby -v

ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]
$ gem -v
1.3.5

[Conrad Taylor]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jason Bray <jayb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be easy on a Mac so imagine my frustration...  I know I'm the cause of the problem, I just don't know what I screwed up since I'm so new at this...

ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

which ruby

/usr/local/bin/ruby

gem -v 

/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)

from /usr/local/bin/gem:8

which gem

/usr/local/bin/gem

thanks so much for the assist....

OK, let's try doing the following:

1)  change your PATH to look like the following:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:${PATH}

/usr/local/bin

2)  install MacPorts by clicking the link

Leopard

3)  open other Terminal window

sudo port install sqlite3

sudo gem update --system

sudo gem install rails

sudo gem install sqilite3-ruby

rails cookbook

Note:  The above is a very minimal setup but it should get you started.

Good luck and let me know how it goes,

-Conrad

[Conrad Taylor]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Conrad Taylor <conr...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jason Bray <jayb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be easy on a Mac so imagine my frustration...  I know I'm the cause of the problem, I just don't know what I screwed up since I'm so new at this...

ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

which ruby

/usr/local/bin/ruby

gem -v 

/usr/local/bin/gem:8:in `require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)

from /usr/local/bin/gem:8

which gem

/usr/local/bin/gem

thanks so much for the assist....

OK, let's try doing the following:

1)  change your PATH to look like the following:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:${PATH}