Posts Tagged debian

Install passenger on Debian

Posted by Mathieu in Other on 09/04/2009

Need packages to be able to install Passenger on Debian sid:

- ruby1.8-dev
- make

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Rails 2.3 on Debian

Posted by Mathieu in Articles on 09/04/2009

I decided to install a new Rails environment in a VM using Debian (testing) to be able to code when I don’t have my Macbook.

This is my experience. Read the whole article before running any command you find in here.

I thought that it would be as easy as:

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debian~:# aptitude install ruby rubygems
debian~:# gem install rails
debian~:# rails myapp
debian~:# cd myapp
debian~:# ./script/server

But the result was not as expected:

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Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1 (you have 1.2.0). Please `gem update --system` and try again.

Well, let’s do as told:

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debian:~/myapp# gem update --system
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
gem update --system is disabled on Debian. RubyGems can be updated using the official Debian repositories by aptitude or apt-get.

No good… What now? Let’s google it. Yeah there is a gem that allows you to update rubygems to the latest version:

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debian:~/myapp# gem install rubygems-update
debian:~/myapp# update_rubygems
debian:~/myapp# gem install rails
debian:~/myapp# ./script/server

Voila!  (almost)
Did we need to reinstall the Rails gem? Well, yeah… Debian’s version of rubygems stores his stuff in the /var/lig/gems folder while this new updated version stores in /usr/lib/ruby(…).
A good thing with this rubygems installation is that we do not need to edit the path anymore as the bin (rails…) are now in the /usr/bin folder.

Now that we have solved the rubygems version problem, let see what problem is showing now:

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debian:~/myapp# ./script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.2 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:269:in `require_frameworks': no such file to load -- net/https (RuntimeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:134:in `process'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `send'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `run'
from /root/myapp/config/environment.rb:9
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/commands/server.rb:84
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from ./script/server:3

net/http??? Google, my friend, what’s going on? After finding articles about recompiling ssl, i found this solution, much more convinient:

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debian:~myapp/# aptitude install libopenssl-ruby1.8
debian:~/myapp# ./script/server

Voilà!!! It’s working at last! I must admit that I am a little desapointed. I thought it would be much easier to have rails 2.3 running on debian.

My next step is to have Vim configured so it would be very close to using Textmate!

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