From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T20:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: building readline on Tiger


On Sep 23, 2006, at 4:40 AM, Jean-Michel LEON-FOUN-LIN wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> this is the first time I've posted to this group. And I am a ruby  
> and programming newbie. (To give you an idea of my skills I am  
> reading Chris Pine's book right now, I'll move to the PickAxe later).
> I have installed ruby and rails following Hivelogic's guide at  
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ 
> ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger.
>
> I
> seem to have a working ruby / rails install. I have tried Apple's  
> tutorial's at http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html and  
> some basic ruby programs.
> When I type: require 'readline' irb gives a false response. When I  
> do the same with 'mysql' it tells me the file doesn't exist.
>
> Building readline seemed to have gone right. Could someone explain  
> to me what irb's answers mean?

The false response for "require 'readline'" is simply Ruby's way  of  
saying that readline was already loaded. That is require returns  
false whenever it doesn't actually have to load the file. The  file  
mysql.rb does not actually exist. Rails doesn't need such a file to  
access MySQL.
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