From: Rob Bazinet <rbazinet@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T03:12:36+09:00
Subject: Re: rails install problems (SuSE 9.2)

Check this out - http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2245. I had the same
problem and was able to fix using this method.  Ruby 1.8.3 has some
issues with Rails 0.13.

Hope this helps.

-Rob

Anna Langley wrote:
> I'm having some problem with installing rails on SuSE 9.2 Linux. The problem
> occurs whether ruby is installed from latest sources or by rpm in /usr/bin
> (I'd built a new rpm from the latest sources, because the version of ruby
> for SuSE 9.2 is apparently too old for compatibility with rails).
> 
> I've installed from source like so:
> # rpm -e ruby
> # cd ruby-1.8.3
> # ./configure
> # make && make install
> # rehash
> # cd ../rubygems-0.8.11/
> # ruby setup.rb
> # gem update
> # gem install rails # yes to all required dependencies
> # rails /srv/www/htdocs/myapp # directory exists and is writable
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb:13:in
> `remove_const': constant Logger::Format not defined (NameError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb:13
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support.rb:31
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.11.1/lib/active_record.rb:29
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in`require'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in `activate'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in `activate'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:167:in `activate'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:166:in `activate'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in
> `require_gem_with_options'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in
> `require_gem'
>         from /usr/local/bin/rails:17
> #
> 
> /srv/www/htdocs/myapp remains empty.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Anna