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For Rails, "sudo gem update --system; sudo gem install rails" is not sufficient ?

by traxtech 14y ago

oscardelben 14y ago
This is targeted at beginners with little/no programming experience.
- tjoozeylabs 14y ago
  cool
adrianpike 14y ago
It's not. At the very least, you'll want to upgrade to a 1.9 version of Ruby - even in 10.7, I'm pretty sure it still comes out of the box with 1.8.7. Also, most of the Ruby or Rails developers I know use either rvm or rbenv to have multiple versions of Ruby installed side by side.
- traxtech 14y ago
  I run Rails 3.2.3 with Ruby 1.8.7 on Snow Leopard without problems :)
  - cmelbye 14y ago
    Right, and that's the last release series that will support 1.8.7. Thus, you'll want Ruby 1.9 eventually. Besides Rails compatibility, 1.9 is faster, includes lots of nice new syntaxes and methods for doing things, better encoding support, etc.
    - Argorak 14y ago
      Also, 1.8.7 EOL is so close that you should not choose it for new projects.
      - traxtech 14y ago
        My MacBook EOL is also very close, I'm waiting for the new Apple hardware releas. I'll switch them both together : Christmas waaaaay before Christmas.
stephenhuey 14y ago
When I returned to Rails after a couple of years away from it, I had to piece together a few different blog posts about setting up Rails 3 with Ruby 1.9 on Mac OS X to get my toolchain working, and even then I had to troubleshoot version-specific problems not covered in the blogs. I believe most beginners would have been deterred from continuing. I don't really use Rails on Windows much at all, but tried RailsInstaller on Windows 7 just for fun about a year ago and was delighted it worked so well and would like for beginners to have such an easy experience on a Mac, my OS of choice!
moe 14y ago
Seems like I should post my famous 5 lines again: 1. Install XCode and homebrew 2. sudo brew install {postgresql,rbenv,ruby-build} 3. Close terminal. Open terminal. 4. mkdir proj && cd proj && rbenv install 1.9.2-p290 && rbenv local 1.9.2-p290 5. gem install rails && rbenv rehash 6. rails new foo That should get you up and running on any OSX with a sustainable environment (i.e. one that you can actually reproduce in the future and that can mimic your live servers).
- getsat 14y ago
  This is correct, but replace 1.9.2-p290 with 1.9.3-p125.
  - telemachos 14y ago
    Plus falcon patches? Here's a ruby-build formula for that: $ cat share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125-falcon ## Hat tip to @burkelibbey and @metaskills - who did all the real work build_package_combined_patch() { local package_name="$1" { curl https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/47.diff | git apply curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1859082/performance_and_backport_gc.patch | patch -p1 autoconf ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX_PATH" $CONFIGURE_OPTS make -j 8 make install } >&4 2>&1 } CC=$(which clang) install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz" CC=$(which clang) install_package "ruby-1.9.3-p125" "http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz" combined_patch
    - getsat 14y ago
      There's this gist which combines all the patches and has you install a 1.9.3-p125-perf via rbenv: https://gist.github.com/2113359 https://gist.github.com/2113359 Been using it at work for local dev and in production. Feels good, man.
- traxtech 14y ago
  Thanks!
- deleted 14y ago

For Rails, "sudo gem update --system; sudo gem install rails" is not sufficient ?

oscardelben 14y ago

This is targeted at beginners with little/no programming experience.

tjoozeylabs 14y ago
cool

adrianpike 14y ago

It's not. At the very least, you'll want to upgrade to a 1.9 version of Ruby - even in 10.7, I'm pretty sure it still comes out of the box with 1.8.7. Also, most of the Ruby or Rails developers I know use either rvm or rbenv to have multiple versions of Ruby installed side by side.

traxtech 14y ago
I run Rails 3.2.3 with Ruby 1.8.7 on Snow Leopard without problems :)
- cmelbye 14y ago
  Right, and that's the last release series that will support 1.8.7. Thus, you'll want Ruby 1.9 eventually. Besides Rails compatibility, 1.9 is faster, includes lots of nice new syntaxes and methods for doing things, better encoding support, etc.
  - Argorak 14y ago
    Also, 1.8.7 EOL is so close that you should not choose it for new projects.
    - traxtech 14y ago
      My MacBook EOL is also very close, I'm waiting for the new Apple hardware releas. I'll switch them both together : Christmas waaaaay before Christmas.

stephenhuey 14y ago

When I returned to Rails after a couple of years away from it, I had to piece together a few different blog posts about setting up Rails 3 with Ruby 1.9 on Mac OS X to get my toolchain working, and even then I had to troubleshoot version-specific problems not covered in the blogs. I believe most beginners would have been deterred from continuing. I don't really use Rails on Windows much at all, but tried RailsInstaller on Windows 7 just for fun about a year ago and was delighted it worked so well and would like for beginners to have such an easy experience on a Mac, my OS of choice!

moe 14y ago

Seems like I should post my famous 5 lines again: 1. Install XCode and homebrew 2. sudo brew install {postgresql,rbenv,ruby-build} 3. Close terminal. Open terminal. 4. mkdir proj && cd proj && rbenv install 1.9.2-p290 && rbenv local 1.9.2-p290 5. gem install rails && rbenv rehash 6. rails new foo That should get you up and running on any OSX with a sustainable environment (i.e. one that you can actually reproduce in the future and that can mimic your live servers).

getsat 14y ago
This is correct, but replace 1.9.2-p290 with 1.9.3-p125.
- telemachos 14y ago
  Plus falcon patches? Here's a ruby-build formula for that: $ cat share/ruby-build/1.9.3-p125-falcon ## Hat tip to @burkelibbey and @metaskills - who did all the real work build_package_combined_patch() { local package_name="$1" { curl https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/47.diff | git apply curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1859082/performance_and_backport_gc.patch | patch -p1 autoconf ./configure --prefix="$PREFIX_PATH" $CONFIGURE_OPTS make -j 8 make install } >&4 2>&1 } CC=$(which clang) install_package "yaml-0.1.4" "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz" CC=$(which clang) install_package "ruby-1.9.3-p125" "http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz" combined_patch
  - getsat 14y ago
    There's this gist which combines all the patches and has you install a 1.9.3-p125-perf via rbenv: https://gist.github.com/2113359 https://gist.github.com/2113359 Been using it at work for local dev and in production. Feels good, man.
traxtech 14y ago
Thanks!
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