Specifically, the ruby-oci8 gem. I have both 1.0.7 and 2.0.4 installed. I want 1.0.7. I can just require oci8, but I don't get the version I want. irb(main):001:0> require 'oci8' => true irb(main):002:0> OCI8::VERSION => "2.0.4" I can require using the full path to the file, which works, but is not going to be portable: irb(main):...
I am trying for the first time to install some Ruby gems on Mac OS X Leopard. Please see the command and the output below. My question is how do I install a gem with dependencies? I tried installing individual dependency gems first from a locally downloaded files but I soon found out that there is no end to the rabbit hole :-) I also fou...
i just installed MAMP on this iMac and the rubygems but when i run: sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config gives me Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing mysql: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Ver...
I am currently trying to install the gem nfoiled, which provides a ruby interface to ncurses. I do this by using gem install elliottcable-nfoiled as suggest in the README. Downloading it manually from the github repository and then installing it with rake install doesn't work because of a problem with the echoe-gem, thus I am bound to us...
I want to install a ruby gem which tries to build a native extension. The gem in this case is nokogiri. If I do gem install nokogiri, the native extension dynamically links against libxml, libxslt libs. I want to statically link against those libs. How should I go about this? ...
I'm trying to work out how to use the icalendar ruby gem, found at: http://icalendar.rubyforge.org/ According to their tutorial, you do something like: cal.event.do # ...other event properties alarm do action "EMAIL" description "This is an event reminder" # email body (required) summary "Alarm notification" ...
I have installed the gem 'simple_uuid' but nothing seems to be working. Using irb and running the following: require 'rubygems' require 'simple_uuid' is fine, both return true. But running the following: // Class added by simple_uuid UUID.new returns NameError: uninitialized constant UUID from (irb):3 from :0 I'm a rub...
Hi, anybody, please, help me with Thinking_sphinx configuration. I have table profile1, which has_one profile2 and profile3. So i just need to index them both, but i can't. I tried indexes name indexes profile2(:name), :as => :profile2_name indexes profile3(:name), :as => :profile3_name has id What i m doing wrong? Thanks. ...
I found some similar problems here on SO, but none seem to match my case (sorry if I overlooked). Here's my problem: I installed oauth-plugin gem to ruby gems dir, but trying to use it in rails app tells me that it's not being found. Here's the output of relevant commands: Instalation % s gem install oauth-plugin Successfully installed...
Hi, I am creating a small rails app for personal use and would like to be able to upload excel files to later be validated and added to the database. I had this working previously with csv files, but this has since become impractical. Does anyone know of a tutorial for using the roo or spreadsheet gem to upload the file, display the c...
I see a couple dozen gems that relate to svn, but what little documentation I can find on any of them shows that they are command-line wrappers and misc helpers. (svn-command, svn-hooks, etc.) I've seen code in the wild that does things like: require 'svn/core' and SVN.Repos.add(...), but the author of that module pulled his svn ruby t...
Hello, Linux newbie question I guess.. How can I find out where gem installs the gems on my Ubuntu 10 system? I want to read gem sourcecode and perhaps change things up a bit. ...
we do not know where to install ruby gems. we have installed ruby 1.8.6 ...
I'm looking for a gem that's able to send Growl notifications and receive a click-event on the notification. There are some gems available but the problem is none of them seem to be compatible with Ruby 1.9. Any suggestions? ...
I have a Rails application to do web surveys. It stores answers to multiple-choices (fixnum) questions into sqlite3. Is there any ruby gem that I can use to export my data into spss format ? I'd like to be able to export for SPSS version prior of 16/16 or up. My SPSS export needs to include two files: a syntax file (survey_name_SPSS_s...
Here is the command line output: [email protected] [~/rails_apps/recurse]# rake gems (in /home/breefiel/rails_apps/recurse) - [ ] authlogic - [ ] acts_as_archive - [ ] haml I = Installed F = Frozen R = Framework (loaded before rails starts) Notice that the gems are not I, F, or R...what does this mean? This is just one ind...
I'm having a couple of problems using Highline in Ruby, and trying to get the choice element, detailed here, to work. At the moment the following code produces the error "error: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1). Use --trace to view backtrace" How do I get the variable out of choice? At the moment I have the 'do' setup, but I have ...
I'm having a runtime errror when i'm looking at the "workers" tab on resque-web (localhost). Everything else works. Edit: when this error occurs, i also have some (3 or 4) unknown workers 'not working'. I think they are responsible for the error but i don't understand how they got here. It only happens when i start the workers from God ...
Over the last few months, there have been a number of rapid developments in the state of Ruby dependency management and gem creation, to the point where I've been having trouble keeping up with everything. If I'm writing a new gem, what's the best tool for me to use to create my gemspec? Are there disadvantages of using this tool over ...
Does anyone know a ruby library to handle GDF (Geographic Data File) files ? ...