rubygems

Ruby library/gem for game graphics?

I am creating a simple Blackjack game in Ruby, and I have finished all the game logic stuff (finally!) and currently have it running through the command line. It is all working, so now I need a library or gem that will make the whole graphics side of things easier. Any ideas? Thanks. ...

Ruby Geolocation Gem/Plugins

What are the available (best) ruby IP-based geolocation gem/plugins? How do they compare to one another in terms of functionality, performance and ease of use (e.g. do they interact with a web service, or require a separate database, etc.) ? I'm hoping anyone that has used some can share their experience and give recommendations. ...

Searchlogic question

The functionality I'm looking for: I have a form that will search my 'Proposal' model. I want the form to contain a select box and display the categories I have. Now, 'category' is merely a column in my 'Proposal' Model, so the following code from railscasts does not work (as it assumes a category table and use of category_id) <%=...

Why would the Net::LDAP gem prevent tests from running?

I have installed the ruby-net-ldap gem version 0.0.4 on my OS X (Snow Leopard) system. When I include the line... config.gem('ruby-net-ldap') in environment.rb, my tests won't run and I get this error... Missing these required gems: ruby-net-ldap You're running: ruby 1.8.6.0 at /usr/local/bin/ruby rubygems 1.3.5 at /Users/et...

Ruby gems repository

I'm trying to set a gem repository on one of our local servers. Here are the steps I'm running, that I've followed from several guides. 1) I create the BASEDIR folder /var/www/html/gems 2) sudo cp -r /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/someGem /var/www/html/gems 3) sudo gem generate_index -d /var/www/html/gems However, when I run this, I get...

mysql gem for snow leopard

I had trouble with the gem at first but got it to work when I installed the 64-bit MySQL and reinsatlled the gem with arch flags. So it work in rails. The error I used to get was uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes but that is now gone :) However in Xcode when I run a RubyCocoa project I still get the old error of uninit...

Manually adding a Ruby Gem

I am trying to install the mechanize gem that is supposed to work with 1.9 from here: http://github.com/kemiller/mechanize but I do not know how to add it manually. I am using Windows, I could just copy the folder to the gems directory, but how do I initialize it? ...

How can I satisfy the warning about no rubyforge_project specified?

When I build a gem, I get (in /home/agrimm/ruby/chaser) WARNING: no rubyforge_project specified Successfully built RubyGem Name: chaser Version: 0.0.2 File: chaser-0.0.2.gem The friendly manual says "Obviously, if your gem doesn’t have a Rubyforge project, leave this setting alone." (I don't have a Rubyforge project) Trying ...

Composite Primary Keys plugin timestamp problem

I am using Composite Primary Keys plugin and everything is working fine except timestamps. When i insert new row to table that has composite primary key , created_at and updated_at columns became NULL. What can be the problem ? Any help is appreciated. ...

Is it possible to have too many $PATHs set in OS X?

I've been learning about gems lately, and one error I get is: WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and /usr/bin aren't both writable. WARNING: You don't have /Users/Alex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH, gem executables will not run. ERROR: Error installing rubygame: ffi requires rake (>= 0.8.7, runtime) I u...

Ruby Daemons Gem

Hello there, I installed the ruby gem Daemons. To make sure it was working I created a script that would print to a file every 5 seconds. I then created another file to run the script using the trivial example they give you in the readme located at http://daemons.rubyforge.org/ . I require both rubygems and daemons. Then I type 'rub...

Trying to install Ruby on Rails on OSX and I get a Gem::RemoteSourceException

What is going on when I get this "HTTP Response 403" error? I am trying to setup Ruby on Rails on OS X 10.5.8 with XCode 3.1.4: Boston:$ ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0] Boston:$ gem --version 1.0.1 Boston:$ sudo gem update --system Password: Updating RubyGems... ERROR: While executing gem ...

Don't know how to build task 'gems:install'

hi all I am deploying my rails app to a linux server and i have some of the rake tasks missing inlcuding rake gems:install and rake db I am running rails 2.3.4 from GEM. Does anyone know why this is? How do i fix this ? can i update some how ? thanks alot richard moss ...

missing rake tasks ??

hi I have ran gem install rails and am running 2.3.4 but i am missing some rake tasks like 'db' and 'gems' if i run rake -T i get the following tasks. How can i get all the others ? rake apache2 # Build Apache 2 module rake clean # Remove compiled files rake clobber # Remove all generated files rake default # Bu...

Gem install errors writable and PATH

These are the two errors I am getting. I am on OS X. Honestly, don't know if I installed via gem or not - if that matters. WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and /usr/bin aren't both writable. WARNING: You don't have /Users/M/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH, gem executables will not run. ...

Rails - gem install mysql doesn't work on cygwin

I tried to do gem install mysql but there is an error. "Could not create Makefile due to some reason..." How do I fix this? I believe I installed mysql on cygwin. Help!! ...

gem update sqlite3-ruby failed on Windows 7

This is the command I gave in command prompt: gem install sqlite3-ruby > sqlite3-ruby.txt This is the content of sqlite3-ruby.txt Successfully installed sqlite3-ruby-1.2.5-x86-mswin32 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for sqlite3-ruby-1.2.5-x86-mswin32... Installing RDoc documentation for sqlite3-ruby-1.2.5-x86-msw...

Problem with Ruby AWS - Please help!

I'm using the Ruby-AWS gem to interact with Amazon. I was testing it out in my controller and it worked fine, but when I moved the code into my Model, it isn't correctly parsing the data back from amazon. For instance, in my controller @items[0].medium_image.url = "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YIGdgh86L._SL160_.jpg" But in...

Why do you have to explicitly specify scope with friendly_id?

I'm using the friendly_id gem. I also have my routes nested: # config/routes.rb map.resources :users do |user| user.resources :events end So I have URLs like /users/nfm/events/birthday-2009. In my models, I want the event title to be scoped to the username, so that both nfm and mrmagoo can have events birthday-2009 without them bei...

Problem installing metric_fu related with flay.

hi i have installed metric_fu om a rails 2.2 system running hobo and i just can't get to run the metrics command. this is my log: $:apfcool $item rake metrics:all (in /Users/$/Documents/apf/apfcool) * master /Users/$/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/flay-1.4.0/lib/flay.rb:171:in `process_sexp': undefined method `<' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) ...