From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-12T07:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [Arrow] Is Working, Posting Installation and Configuration

So what do you plan on creating with arrow, and could
you tell after you finish how it turned out? 

--David Ross

--- Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:

> Ok, despite a to late of a night.... last night and
> some wasted posts (i 
> should have just went to bed and waited until today
> to do it) I finally 
> got Arrow-0.1.0 to work. So here are my findings of
> the installation and 
> configuration process:
> 
> Installation Requires These Steps:
>
------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 0 - Be sure to have the online manual for arrow
> pulled up and read it! 
> (http://www.rubycrafters.com/arrow-manul/).  I
> didn't and I ended up 
> with a lot of stupid questions. (Thanks daz for
> being nice about 
> pointing all of the answers out to me...although you
> probably could have 
> told me to RTFM)
> 
> 0.5 - If you don't have Apache you will need to get.
> You will need 
> version 1.3 or higher.
> 
> 1 - Download, untar Arrow, go into redist/ directory
> in the Arrow-0.1.0/ 
> directory and untar all tar.gz files and run the
> install.rb for each 
> one. There are three free standing files:
> hashslice.rb, crosscase.rb and 
> delimscanner.rb in the redist/ directory. I copied
> these to the 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ directory.
> (HashSlice is mentioned on 
> the Online Manual page for Arrow, but I didn't see
> anything about the 
> other two...any one care to comment on them?) Now go
> back into the 
> Arrow-0.1.0/ directory and run the install.rb from
> here. Also check to 
> see if you have the strscan.rb file for you ruby
> installation. If you 
> don't you will need it (It does not come with the
> ruby debian package).
> 
> 2 - If you don't have mod_ruby you will need to get
> it, 
> http://modruby.net. Download, compile and install.
> 
> 3 -  If you dont' hvae a libapreq shared library you
> will to get it, 
> http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/ . I downloaded from
> the ASF mirror (not 
> CPAN mirror) and downloaded version 1.3. Untar, and
> compile.
>     - ./configure
> --with-apache-includes=/usr/include/apache-1.3 ;
> make 
> ; make install
> 
>     - libapreq.so.1 was installed in my
> /usr/local/lib, check your 
> /etc/ld.so.conf file and see if the directory to
> where libapreq.so.1 is 
> listed. If it isn't then add it and run the command
> "ldconfig".
> 
> 4 - I then moved the Arrow-0.1.0/ directory to be
> /etc/arrow/ directory
> 
> 
> Configuration
> ------------------------
> 
> 0 - Follow the configuration instructions at 
>
http://www.rubycrafters.com/arrow-manual/config.html.
>  I had pasted my 
> Apache portion of the configuration inside of a
> VirtualHost. The 
> RubyAddPath value should be "/etc/arrow/lib" if you
> followed step 4 from 
> above. The RubyHandler was set to: 
> "Arrow::Dispatcher::create('/etc/arrow/demo.cfg')"
> 
> 0.5 - Then I had to modify the demo.cfg file and add
> to the path section 
> under applets: - "/etc/arrow/applets" . Also to note
> that you need to 
> make sure you use 2 spaces to indent each section of
> the configuration 
> file deeper you go. I used tabs and it didn't work.
> (This may be a 
> simple YAML requirement? but I have never used YAML
> so I didn't know)
> 
> 1 - Restart Apache.  Try to go to a URL to access
> the link: 
> http://localhost/tutorial/hello ). If it doesn't
> work check your apache 
> error.log
> 
> 
> And that is how I got the Arrow-0.1.0 up and going
> with the samples. Now 
> on to testing the framework with some custom stuff.
> 
> One thing that would be nice is for better Error
> documentation on 
> Arrow's errors. I have no clue what "Applet returned
> false, OK Status = 
> -1" means in the apache error.log file. Is that a
> missing file? A 
> malformed applet file? etc... Most of the errors
> were because of my own 
> lack of patience and reading, but I hope that this
> post will help others.
> 
>  Also it'd be nice if the README file or the online
> manual would state 
> how-to run the demo/samples all you need to do are
> these steps: boom, 
> bang, bing! Then I would be much more inclined to
> reading the Tutorial 
> page on the Arrow web site and put 2 and 2 together.
> It is often easier 
> to see an end result and then go back and figure out
> how it got there, 
> then it is to read about it all upfront and have to
> figure out how the 
> pieces interact.  Just another perspective.
> 
> 
> Zach
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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