tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78011472011-04-21T15:32:51.625-04:00mopyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01113076267366366839noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801147.post-26724467475654667632007-06-12T13:33:00.000-04:002007-06-22T16:57:36.021-04:00I'm launching the blog on my own server, please see<a href="http://pleasantlyblue.net/wp"></a> <a href="http://mopethis.wordpress.com/">mopethis.wordpress.com</a> for new entries.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7801147-2672446747565466763?l=mopyblue.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mopyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01113076267366366839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7801147.post-1144206848902557112006-04-04T23:00:00.000-04:002007-03-28T15:14:58.050-04:00So I decided to give Ruby on Rails a spin. By following the instruction from the web site, I got the server (webrick) running pretty fast. However, I was unable to follow the tutorial to create the sample script. After much wrangling, I finally figured out that there are quite a few things left out by the installation howto:<br /><br />1. make sure you have all the packages through yum:<br /><pre> yum install mysql-devel irb rdoc ruby-devel ruby-mysql gcc</pre>2. also make sure to install mysql ruby gem<br /><pre> sudo gem install mysql</pre>3. it would give you the following errors:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;"> ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)<br /> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.<br /> Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.<br /> ruby extconf.rb install mysql\nchecking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br /> checking for main() in -lm... yes<br /> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br /> checking for main() in -lz... yes<br /> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br /> checking for main() in -lsocket... no<br /> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no<br /> checking for main() in -lnsl... yes<br /> checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no</span><br /></blockquote>4. goto the directory that it is trying to install from (look for the directory in the error message)<br /><pre> cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7<br /> sudo ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql<br /> sudo gem install mysql<br /></pre>5. Now the rest of the tutorial should work.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7801147-114420684890255711?l=mopyblue.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mopyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01113076267366366839noreply@blogger.com4