From: Jean-Michel LEON-FOUN-LIN <jm-leonfounlin@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T21:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: building readline on Tiger

On 2006-09-23 15:50:06 +0400, Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@mac.com> said:

> 
> 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.
> ---
> Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely  
> or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
> 
> -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate  
> (1872-1970)

Thanks a lot for your answer.