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unable to update gems on mac osx - Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError

Jon-MacBook-Pro:rubygems-1.3.7 jon$ sudo gem install rails Password: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (http://rubygems.org/gems/activesupport-2.3.8.gem) ...

gem problem on mac os x

Just to make one thing clear, it's not completely a programming question but a programmer might know what's wrong: Messed up my gem installation. If I execute "gem list" or any other gem command, I get /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:956:in `use_paths': undefined method `join' for #<String:0x101786480> (NoMethodError) from /Librar...

Error while reading from spreadsheet in Ruby

I am getting following error while reading from a spreadsheet file. I have searched alot on Google. I have seen posts with similar problems but no reply to the problems. Does anyone know how to resolve this error? C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-ole-1.2.8.2/lib/ole/storage/file_system.rb:125:in `dirent_from_path': No such file o...

Using Bundler along with preinstalled gems

So I've got thin installed the old fashioned way: gem install thin I put an app on the server and installed all of its required gems via bundler: bundle install But, when I tried to start the app with thin start, it can't find any of the bundler-installed gems since they're not installed in the default gems directory. My question...

I need to modify the code of a third-party gem, where and how to do?

I'm building a website based on RoR, and using a third-party gem "devise". I have used rake gems:unpack to unpack the "devise" to my "vendor/gems" directory. Now, I found the method "SessionsController.create" provided by "devise" is not fit my requirement, and I want to modify it. But I don't know what it is best way: just modify t...

Ruby on Rails on Windows: gem install fails, no output at all

I installed ruby through the windows installer yesterday. All seemed fine. Today, I went installing the rmagick win32 gem like so: c:\ruby187\bin\gem install rmagick-2.7.1-x86-mswin32.gem in the directory with the gem. That also seemed to work fine, got the familiar 1 gem installed Installing ...[all the ri and other docs]. But after...

How does bundler work (in general)?

Hello, I'm pretty new to Ruby/Rails but I was taking a look at bundler and was wondering how it works exactly. Do you install a full set of gems like normal gem install XYZand then use the Gemfile to pull a certain subset of those gems for use with a specific application? Or do you not install gems normally anymore and just include them ...

JRuby gem problem

Hi, I am trying to run a rails application in Netbeans with JRuby as the underlying Ruby. When I try to run the server, I got an error like this, Missing these required gems: libxml-ruby So I tried installing the libxml-ruby gem, but I cannot install it because its a native version and jruby would not support it. Thats fine. (in...

What is the 'etc' ruby gem for?

I was looking through some code and came across a "require 'etc'" line. Of course, googling for things like "ruby etc gem" has been fruitless. I haven't found any documentation for it (yet) so I thought I'd ask here. ...

ruby gem install error on MAC pc due to behind corporate proxy

Hi, I am trying to install ruby gems on my MAC (OSX 10.5.1) behind corporate firewall proxy but i am getting error for connection refuse. kindly help me out to resolve this problem. Thanks & regards Ravi ...

Ruby gem installation problem on MAC which is behind firewall

Hi , Please provide me solution for the problem of, 1) How to install ruby gems on MAC PC(OSX 10.5.1) which is behind corporate firewall . Regards, Sun ...

automatically including a plugin/gem's module in rails

I have a gem that I'm working on that contains a module that I'd like to be automatically included in my Rails app. For now, I've put the following: config.after_initialize do include MyModule end I'd like to not have to include this in the instructions for my app. It would be great if someone could install the gem/plugin and have t...

Push Rack-Jekyll app to Heroku

Hello, I haven't used Ruby. I don't what gems are. But I know how to install them and do basic things like that. I heard of Jekyll and decided to start my own using Heroku. I found Rack-Jekyll that will work on Heroku. I created my site as per Jekyll instructions and it is running fine on my system. Then I did what I was told to do in ...

Manipulating biiig XML documents

Hi, I want to parse a XML file, change some attributes and write the results in a new XML file. The given XML file is very huge (approx. 2 GB). Does anyone have experiences handling such XML files using Ruby and can recommend me a library? Best regards ...

How to use RubyTorrent? (or other gems)

I was reading the book Ruby Cookbook by O'Reilly, and it has a section on RubyTorrent But if I do the following on Win 7: > gem install rubytorrent > irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubytorrent' LoadError: no such file to load -- rubytorrent from (irb):6:in `require' from (irb):6 I looked and found that C:\Ruby\lib\ruby...

Installing Ruby Gems behind a Proxy

It appears this topic has been covered a few times before, but those solutions have only gotten me so far. I now have my sources properly updated and I am able to query for gems without an error but I keep getting empty results for my searches. I installed rubysspi and copied over the spa.rb file as mentioned in the readme. The readme...

RVM + Ruby 1.9.1 + ruby-debug = error?

I am trying to get a decent navigation between my methods in TextMate. I would love to have a list of them in a drawer, but I guess there is no such solution yet, right? Therefore I am trying to set up RubyAMP to work with Ruby 1.9.1-p378 installed via RVM, but have some troubles. RubyAMP needs ruby-debug, and here is what I get if I try...

Installing rails-3.0.0.beta4 , and getting the royal (Errno::ENOENT)

First let me explain that I've created a million lib directories scouring out all the different responses to this same problem but none of them have really done the trick.. I've tried sudo mkdir /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-3.0.0.beta4/lib sudo mkdir /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9/gems/rails-3.0.0.beta4/lib sudo mkdir ...

JRuby: Rake fails with Gem::Version error

I get the following error on any call to rake. I am working on a Rails 3 running on JRuby (1.5.1) installed with RVM. I don't think this was always the case, but I'm not sure how to track it down. Am I correct in think this has something to do with the gems I have installed (listing included below)? $ rake metrics:all /Users/Eric/.rv...

How to I resize images with the auto_html gem in ruby on rails?

Hi folks, I am using the auto_html gem to embedd images and videos in my rails app. But I 've got a small problem. Is there a way to resize the images to a predefined size? Thanks in advance lg tabaluga ...