I'm trying to install Insoshi on my windows laptop, to learn the app and play with it prior to installing it at dreamhost in a modified form for use in a 'real' commercial web site. I've followed the instructions pretty precisely, and it is still failing. But I'll get to that in a moment.
Before messing around with ruby/rails, I have a lot of experience with perl and some with python. I've never seen the kind of dependency mess with them that is just killing me on rails. I tried building the restful_authentication app, and there it was the completely undocumented and fragile feeling internal structure, the failure to validate users, and the unclear docs that left me feeling like I couldn't use it or extend it. With the rails templates, it was the gem mess of conflicting versions and dependencies that stopped me. Every time I'd run into a site that promised a great app, and simple installation, the gems wouldn't install, scripts would crash, etc. Then I found Inoshi. It looks perfect as a skeleton for what I want. I played with the sample site and it seems great. So, I started a fresh install, with my painfully learned knowledge from the other apps. I got the gems installed, got sphinx and ultra installed, and then ran the rake test. I get one rake failure which I *think* is somehow related to the galleries, but it's hard to tell if it's an image library problem. So I pressed on anyway. Then I discovered that no one can really make it all work with postgresql. So I went back and installed mysql. That died also. So I reinstalled sphinx and a lower version of mysql that were supposed to work together. 5.0.45 for mysql and 9.8.1 or something for sphinx. Sure enough, the errors changed. But I still can't run the rake tests to successful completion, and I cant build the databases and I cant run the app. Help! The final straw today was reading the line about how script/install does all this stuff, and the realizing that it doesn't. Why? darned if I know. Look, I'd really appreciate some help, but generally... do you guys/ gals just live with things being this hard to deal with and manage? It sure seems like there's a screaming need for some kind of patch-and- version manager thing in the ruby/rails world. Ideally, frameworks/ templates should be able to just build a running app. Thanks in advance! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Insoshi developer site: http://dogfood.insoshi.com/ Insoshi documentation: http://docs.insoshi.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Insoshi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/insoshi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
