Anthony E. wrote: > Paul Harv wrote:
>> My question is - is it enough for me to just install the gems (have they >> already been built using the appropriate libraries), or do I have to go >> and find these other libraries? If so can you point me to details on >> where to get them and how to install? > Can I safely ignore them or am I missing a dependency (if so which one?) The answer to both these questions is that .so files, unlike .rb files, enjoy early binding. If you run an .rb file with missing dependencies, you don't learn that until when (or _if_) you hit the require '...' line that pulls them in. However, when .so files (or .dll files) load, the loader itself immediately finds all the registered dependencies and loads them too. This early binding happens at the machine language level, so all these libraries can fixup their addresses to the functions in the libraries they use. If you can run ruby -e "require 'libxml'", and not get any complaints, then you have enough libxml, because that line forces ruby's executable image in memory to then pull in all those .so files! Also, run all your tests... -- Phlip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
