From: "miles.sterrett@..." <miles.sterrett@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T23:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: webby, ubuntu and gems

On Jun 10, 4:10 am, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently switched distributions to ubuntu, and I'm having
> problems getting webby up and running. (I suspect this a general
> problem with gems that need to install executables). I ran gem install
> webby, and it installed happily enough into
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.8.4/, but didn't install the webby
> executable anywhere in path. I checked for an ubuntu package, but
> there wasn't one. Of course, I could simply install it all by hand,
> but that seems like the wrong thing to do - I'd rather figure out how
> to get my gems playing nicely with ubuntu.
>
> ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i486-linux]
> gem -v: 0.9.4
> /etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
>
> martin

I am running Ubuntu 8.04.  I installed RubyGems from source.  I just
installed webby, and it placed an executable file in /usr/bin.

Incidentally, it is acceptable, if not recommended, to install
RubyGems from source.  Because RubyGems can update itself, you can run
into issues with both apt/aptitude/Synaptic and RubyGems trying to
update RubyGems.

It may be advantageous for you to post the results of 'echo $PATH' and
'sudo find / -name "webby"'.

Good luck.

MilesZS