From: jOhn <netcam@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T04:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: rails is a mess!

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No I have a bunch of things to setup and just can't get any of it to work.

I have a ruby v1.9 app which uses the onig back-ref stuff, tried to port it
back to ruby v1.8 and nothing works on ubuntu.  All the talk out there
implies its possible but its not AFAIK without re-writing my code and even
then likely won't work. Tried the patch ruby v1.8.6 with onig source and
fails.

That stuff is gone though for now as its too hard to do, I'll just shelf
it.

So on to a rails-v1.1.6 app which fails to work with rubygems v1.1.1 or ruby
v1.8.6.  REXML fails on ruby v1.8.6 and rubygems seems to just mess up rails
v1.1.6 as well so its kind of a cluster-mess.

I'm tired of non-back-compatibility of rails and ruby.  Too much thrash and
not enuf stash!

Too many loose pieces, you have to seal up your box when you finish
something.

It reminds me of Fedora-Core-4 and video cards!


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Did you actually install the oniguruma C library?  That's probably
> your first problem.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, jOhn <netcam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have to say that rails is such a mess right now.  Notta working and it
> >  sucks.  I would prefer slower build out to failed stuff.
> >
> >  Oniguruma does not work on ruby v1.8.6 and gem install oniguruma fails,
> and
> >  compile workarounds fail as well.
> >
> >  Also, ruby v1.8.6 and support for an older rails (v1.1.6) fails which
> is
> >  required for my project.  Used to work fine, but now I get tons of bugs
> like
> >  the 'require_gem' vs. 'gem' and the total failure of REXML (which is
> >  inexplicable).
> >
> >  REXML fails on ruby v1.8.6 due to NoMethodError "private method 'gsub'
> >  called for true:TrueClass" ??
> >
> >  The newer RubyGems v1.1.1 is a hack-a-mess and seems to break all.
> >
> >  Aaarrrgh I need to do django and move away from this crappery.  I
> really
> >  like ruby but rails not so much.
> >
>
>
>
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