From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-09-13T03:38:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [Arrow] Is Working, Posting Installation and Configuration

Michael Granger wrote:

> First of all, I must apologize for my lack of prompt reply to this 
> (and your other emails). I've been traveling, and haven't kept up with 
> ruby-talk as faithfully as I should have. Thanks to daz and others who 
> have replied in my absence.

No need to apologize, we can't expect you and other developers to be 
able to reply 24/7 and I know that people do have life outside of the 
Ruby ML. I just don't hold anything back if I have a question. And you 
are replying now, so no harm no foul.

>
> it assumes you've done mod_ruby development before and know about 
> Apache status codes, which isn't a valid assumption. We'll try to do 
> better. =:)

I have used mod_ruby once or twice in the past for benchmarking tests at 
work. Nothing fancy, just basic stuff and it was a while ago.

>
>> 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.
>
>
> The installation script should do all this for you: it can install 
> demo applets and templates in a directory of your choice, create an 
> appropriate config file for your installation, and then generates and 
> outputs an appropriate section for your httpd.conf. Did this not work 
> for you?

It installed the demo applets and templates and it did create a 
demo.cfg. I had to manually add the httpd.conf configuration. I run a 
Debian woody box.  Once I figure out Arrow and mod_ruby a little better 
I will be installing on another Debian server at work(the one I use now 
is my home development server) so I will pay closer attention to what 
happens during installation and update the you and the list.

>
> One of the things it doesn't do is attempt to install the stuff in 
> redist/ for you or check your mod_ruby installation. It would appear 
> from your installation attempts as if this might be valuable. I'm a 
> bit leery of doing either because of cross-platform concerns, but I 
> guess I could do it for UNIXish installations and see where that gets us.

The redist/ part was my fault for not starting off reading the online 
documentation for Arrow. I just read the README file and away I went.  
But perhaps the install script to output to the user: "formvalidator is 
not installed, it can be found in the redist/ directory".


Zach