From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T17:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Webby, Gems and Paths

On Feb 5, 2008 12:23 AM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>
> > I am running an Ubuntu box, and it seems that whenever I "gem
> > install" something
> > with an executable (eg. /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.7.2/bin/webby)
> > - I have to
> > make a link to it in /usr/local and set the +x flag before it works.
> > With Webby, linking
> > still doesn't work because it tries to load libraries with relative
> > paths:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/webby:4:in `require': no such file to load --
> > /usr/local/lib/webby (LoadError)
> >
> > ...so I have to cd to /var/lib/gems...etc. to run it.
>
> What version of "gem" do you have installed?
>
> $ gem --version

0.9, I have just updated to 1.01, so perhaps that will work better.

> > Is there something wrong with my gems setup? Also, once I had build my
> > Webby site,
> > I had to put "require 'rubygems'" in tasks/setup.rb before anything
> > would work.
>
> Okay, that was my bad. It will be fixed in the next release.

Maybe not. The rubygems website says I should set my RUBYOPT
environment variable, so that would sort this problem out.

> > After that Webby seems to work very well, except for one more thing
> > that I cannot
> > resolve. When I try to create a new page:
> >
> > lesliev@lesliev-laptop:/media/Storage/linux/qbe$ rake create:page
> > about --trace
> > (in /media/Storage/linux/qbe)
> > ** Invoke create:page (first_time)
> > ** Execute create:page
> > rake aborted!
> > undefined method `top_level_tasks' for #<Rake::Application:0xb7bc7354>
> > /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.7.2/lib/webby/webby_task.rb:94:in
> > `define_create_tasks'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `call'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `execute'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `each'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `execute'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:357:in `invoke'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:350:in `synchronize'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:350:in `invoke'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `run'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `each'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `run'
> > /usr/bin/rake:4
> >
>
> What version of rake do you have installed? You should be running the
> latest (version 0.8.1 I believe).

Ah, I have 0.7.1. Updating now...

Thanks for all your help!

Leslie