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How to override a class method of the gem in rails Application ?

Hi, Best practice to Override a class method of the gem in rails Application ? . I need to override the behaviour of the find method of a gem. following is the code in the gem module Youtube class display attr_accessor :base def find(id, options = {}) detailed = convert_to_number(options.delete(:detailed)) ...

Fleximage gem on Ruby 1.9

Running a Rails application with Fleximage in Ruby 1.8.7 works fine, but in Ruby 1.9 returned error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fleximage-1.0.4/lib/fleximage/model.rb:340: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.0.0] -- control frame ---------- c:0060 p:---- s:0295 b:0295 l:000294 d:0...

Simulating a missing gem in Ruby unit tests

Is there any way to simulate the absence of a gem for certain unit tests, short of actually uninstalling and then reinstalling the gem during testing? I am writing a command line utility, and want to make sure that my tests cover cases where a user may not have all of the gems that I support. For instance, I am using fsevents — a Leopar...

Unable to install Ruby gems

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...

Rails Mikel Mail Gem How to use Views

I'm trying to use mikel gem mail on my 2.3.5 Rails App http://github.com/mikel/mail I have it working like this. I've made a MailComHelper, made a method like this : def self.welcome(user,password) @user = user m = Mail.new m.from = '[email protected]' m.to = @user.email m.subject = 'welcome' m.body = 'The body' m...

require 'rubygems'

I have seen many samples of Ruby code with this line (for example, http://www.sinatrarb.com/). What is purpose of this require? # require 'rubygems' require 'sinatra' get '/hi' do "Hello world!" end In all cases the code works without this line. ...

json_pure/rubygems cyclic dependencies

I have an issue when trying to set up rvm, where gems weren't installing due to them being dependent on json_pure. I tried to install json_pure, but rubygems itself seems to depend on json_pure. I have tried removing all versions of json_pure, but rubygems still complains. $ sudo gem install json_pure /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems....

ruby on rails configuration

Im using the following guide for getting started with rails for ubuntu 9.10. http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html I have installed both ruby and gem. gokul@gokul-laptop:~$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux] gokul@gokul-laptop:~$ gem -v 1.3.6 gokul@gokul-laptop:~$ For rails, gokul@gokul-laptop:...

How to generate a unified diff in Ruby?

After reading through this question about Ruby diff packages, I'm still not sure how to generate a unified diff from two text files. I'm not having trouble reading each file into a string (IO.read()), but I'm not finding any package that can generate a unified diff. Does one exist? Is doing a system call to diff even an option I should c...

No rails commands will run

I am trying to learn rails and haven't used it in the last few weeks but today when I try to run any rails commands such as - 'rails -v' - 'script/server' I get not have reinstalled ruby but the didn't don't have a clue what could be wrong Am on a brand new Macbook Pro Jeremy-Geross-MacBook-Pro:~ Jeremy$ rails -v /Library/Ruby/Si...

Is there any way to tell which gems and plugins are loaded at runtime for a Rails process?

Is there any command either in debugger or ruby-debug to get a list of all gems and/or plugins loaded in memory for a Rails process? I understand only the 'require' gems are loaded but I would like to quickly see what got loaded during runtime. ...

Error installing geoip_city gem

I keep getting an error when trying to install the geoip_city gem. I've already installed the GeoIP C library to /opt/GeoIP, but the gem doesn't seem to pick it up. I've tried: sudo gem install geoip_city -- --with-geoip-dir=/opt/GeoIP sudo gem install geoip_city -- --with-geoip-lib=/opt/GeoIP/lib sudo gem install geoip_city -- --wi...

Need to run Rails 2.2.2 but I have RubyGems 1.3.6 it wants 1.3.5

I have a Rails program that has 2.2.2 embedded. When I run it I get an error because RubyGems 1.3.6 is not compatible with Rails 2.2.2. I am running rvm and would like to set up an environment to run this program with ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Barb ...

Gem installed and require but "Constant missing"

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...

Error in requiring Sinatra gem

I'm having a hard time getting Sinatra running on my local setup, Ubuntu Karmic 9.10. The error getting thrown when I have require 'sinatra' is: NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:891:in `compile' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sinatra-1.0/...

devise register confirmation

hello! i have a user and an admin role in my project. i created my authentification with devise, really nice and goot tool for handling the authentification. in my admin role i don´t have any confirmation or something like that. it is really simple and doesn´t make problems. but in my user model i have following things: model: devise ...

installing by_star gem?

Can someone shed light on how to setup by_star gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/by_star? I ran ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/radar/by_star.git. However, when I went to call a by_star method in one of my models from console, I got an undefined method error. Do I need include or require statement? Could I be missing depende...

rspec needs to be installed in base app

I am having trouble building a gem. When I run rake it gives the the following error message: You need to install rspec in your base app I'm not completely certain what I should be doing to fix this. I have double checked that rspec is, in fact installed. Any help would be appreciated. ...

Installing and using acts-as-taggable-on

This is going to be a really dumb question, I just know it, but I'm going to ask anyways because it's driving me crazy. How do I get acts-as-taggable-on to work? I installed it as a gem with gem install acts-as-taggable-on because I can't ever seem to get installing plugins to work, but that's a whole other batch of questions that are ...

Ruby gem error: no such file to load -- bundler

I have some troubles with a Ruby gem named Bundler. My OS is Ubuntu 10.04. My environment is as follows: $ gem env RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.6 - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 378) [i486-linux] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby1.9.1/gems/1.9.1 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 - EXEC...