From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T22:18:44+09:00
Subject: Re: FastRI always returns nil on OS X

Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
>> OS X (10.4.9)
>> Ruby 1.8.6 (built from source)
>> FastRI 0.3.0
>>
>> I installed FastRI seemingly without issue, fired up fastri-server, but 
>> I always get back nil.
>>
>> daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ ps -ax | grep fast
>>  2775  p1  S      0:05.53 ruby /usr/local/bin/fastri-server
>>  4013  p1  S+     0:00.00 grep fast
>> daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri Array#length
>> nil
>> daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri -v
>> fri 0.3.0 (2007-01-29)
> 
> I couldn't reproduce it on OSX 10.4.9 + Ruby 1.8.6 + FastRI 0.3.0 (that is,
> theoretically the very same setup).
> 
> However, I noticed that the stdlib rdoc documentation wasn't being generated
> on 'make install', so I had to 'make install-doc' manually after building
> 1.8.6. If you're getting
>   $ fastri-server -b
>   Indexed:
>   * 0 methods
>   * 0 classes/modules
> 'make install-doc' should help.
> 
> You can try qri (identical to fri but using the local index, thus without
> needing the DRb service, and a bit slower) to discard network/DRb issues, but
> that doesn't seem to be the culprit.
> 

Running make install-doc + fastri-server -b did the trick.

Many thanks,

Dan