Why can't I use webrick with git instaweb on Mac OS X?

Question

I'm trying to use git instaweb with Ruby' webrick (which I have installed) on Mac OS X, but every time I fire up

$ git instaweb --httpd=webrick

I get the following error:

webrick not found. Install webrick or use --httpd to specify another httpd daemon.

Like I said, I do have webrick, so I don't know why git instaweb won't use it. Any ideas?

I'm using Git v1.7.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.

Answer 1

The webrick server is fairly unique in that git instaweb creates shell script named webrick in '$GIT_DIR/gitweb/', which runs '$GIT_DIR/gitweb/webrick.rb', which in turn has require 'webrick' as its first line. Check if those generated files are there, and that thye call files that exist.

'$GIT_DIR' is .git in top directory of your project, or just git rev-parse --git-dir.