Rails: gem install rails is bombing

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Hi,

I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix this?

debian:/usr/local/src# ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-24) [i386-linux]

debian:/usr/local/src# gem install rails
Attempting local installation of 'rails'
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
Successfully installed rails, version 0.8.0
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require__': No such file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError)
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:42:in `generate_rdoc'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:167:in `execute'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:166:in `each'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:166:in `execute'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in `invoke'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in `process_args'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run'
         from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'
         from /usr/bin/gem:11

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I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix this?

You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. for help.

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i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package
guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?

cheers.

-a

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix
this?

You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. for
help.

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If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be quite capable as a ruby development platform.

- Jamis

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Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix
this?

You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. for
help.

i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package
guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?

--
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov said:

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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix
this?

You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
for help.

i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of
package
guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?

I use Debian for my major Ruby development. I like the platform,
especially the easy upgrading. However, I compile and build Ruby from
source. The Debian package pipeline is quite long, and I like my Ruby a
litter more current than what they offer.

--
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-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)

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you are the second person to mention gentoo this week - i'll check it out.

cheers.

-a

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:

Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix
this?

You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
for
help.

i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package
guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?

If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo
(http://www.gentoo.org) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be
quite capable as a ruby development platform.

--

EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
PHONE :: 303.497.6469
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good
bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki

===============================================================================

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Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice.

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:53:44 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm running into a problem installing rails using gem. How do I fix
>>>> this?
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't have RDoc installed. Debian has chopped off Ruby into tiny
>>> packages. Have a look at Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
>>> for
>>> help.
>>
>>
>> i'm thinking of switching to debian but am kind of a tar.gz kind of package
>> guy and don't like the sound of that at all... can any of you ruby/debian
>> people give any information on debian as a ruby development platform?
>
> If tar.gz's are your thing, Ara, you might enjoy Gentoo
> (http://www.gentoo.org) as well. I've found my gentoo install to be
> quite capable as a ruby development platform.

you are the second person to mention gentoo this week - i'll check it out.

cheers.

-a
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> EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
> PHONE :: 303.497.6469
> When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good
> bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. --Shunryu Suzuki

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I dearly love Gentoo as a distro, but I did have one issue with the
ebuild scripts for ruby. I had to manually add the
--enable-install-doc option to the default portage ebuild script for
ruby-1.8.2_pre2 in order to get ri to work correctly. I suggested to
the maintainer of the portage script to add a "doc" USE flag to
control this.

Did anyone else have the same issue I did? Is there a more clever way
around this?

Thanks,

Regards,

Jason

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:57 +0900, Tobias Luetke <tobias.luetke@gmail.com> wrote:

Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice.

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Jason Sweat wrote:

Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice.

I dearly love Gentoo as a distro, but I did have one issue with the
ebuild scripts for ruby. I had to manually add the --enable-install-doc option to the default portage ebuild script for
ruby-1.8.2_pre2 in order to get ri to work correctly. I suggested to
the maintainer of the portage script to add a "doc" USE flag to
control this.

Did anyone else have the same issue I did? Is there a more clever way
around this?

Thanks,

Regards,

Jason

Jason,

It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff).

However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is_complex_yaml?, pretty_print, pretty_print_cycle, quote, to_yaml, to_yaml_type). Anyone else seen this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please?

- Jamis

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:57 +0900, Tobias Luetke > <tobias.luetke@gmail.com> wrote:

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http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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Here is what my "ri Array" command returns, is that more or less than
you expected?:

----------------------------------------------------------- Class: Array
     Arrays are ordered, integer-indexed collections of any object.
     Array indexing starts at 0, as in C or Java. A negative index is
     assumed to be relative to the end of the array---that is, an index
     of -1 indicates the last element of the array, -2 is the next to
     last element in the array, and so on.

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:39:49 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:

Jason,

It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went
and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff).

However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but
ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a
handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is_complex_yaml?, pretty_print,
pretty_print_cycle, quote, to_yaml, to_yaml_type). Anyone else seen
this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please?

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

Includes:
---------
     Enumerable(all?, any?, collect, detect, each_with_index, entries,
     find, find_all, grep, include?, inject, map, max, member?, min,
     partition, reject, select, sort, sort_by, to_a, to_set, zip)

Class methods:
--------------
     , new

Instance methods:
-----------------
     &, *, +, -, <<, <=>, ==, , =, abbrev, assoc, at, clear,
     collect, collect!, compact, compact!, concat, delete, delete_at,
     delete_if, each, each_index, empty?, eql?, fetch, fill, first,
     flatten, flatten!, frozen?, hash, include?, index, indexes,
     indices, initialize_copy, insert, inspect, join, last, length, map,
     map!, nitems, pack, pop, push, rassoc, reject, reject!, replace,
     reverse, reverse!, reverse_each, rindex, select, shift, size,
     slice, slice!, sort, sort!, to_a, to_ary, to_s, transpose, uniq,
     uniq!, unshift, values_at, zip, |

Regards,
Jason
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Jason Sweat wrote:

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:39:49 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:

Jason,

It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went
and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff).

However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but
ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a
handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is_complex_yaml?, pretty_print,
pretty_print_cycle, quote, to_yaml, to_yaml_type). Anyone else seen
this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please?

Here is what my "ri Array" command returns, is that more or less than
you expected?:

[snip]

That is the minimum that I expected. (It's what ri used to return until I recompiled ruby with the doc USE flag enabled.)

Here's the complete output from "ri18 Array" that I'm seeing:

----------------------------------------------------------- Class: Array
      Sequences: Array#to_yaml

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

Instance methods:
-----------------
      abbrev, is_complex_yaml?, pretty_print, pretty_print_cycle, quote,
      to_yaml, to_yaml_type

And, for Object:

---------------------------------------------------------- Class: Object
      (no description...)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Includes:
---------
      PP::ObjectMixin(pretty_print, pretty_print_cycle,
      pretty_print_inspect, pretty_print_instance_variables)

Instance methods:
-----------------
      is_complex_yaml?, to_yaml, to_yaml_properties, to_yaml_type

I have no idea what is going on. Has anyone else seen this?

- Jamis

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jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis