Well said Ian. That particular pain point is the reason for Rails Installer ( http://railsinstaller.org/en). However, I have never used it myself.
-- Ylan Segal [email protected] On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Ian Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Rebecca, > > I think the lesson here is "use rbenv or rvm". These tools let you control > your version of Ruby and upgrade on your own time rather than when your OS > decides to. And just as importantly, they give you a Ruby that's a known > quantity rather than whatever random changeset the OS developers grabbed > and patched with who-knows-what and compiled with whatever flags they felt > like using. If every Rubyist was using these tools, we'd see a vast > reduction in overall grief. > > However, I am conflicted about offering that advice to someone who's > starting with Ruby for the very first time. The process of getting your > first Rails app from zero to booted is already pretty long and filled with > installing and configuring mysterious things ("Ok, I downloaded Xcode, now > I need homebrew, I guess? Wait, why am I installing Node.js? What's a > coffee script?"), and rbenv/rvm adds one more mysterious tool to configure, > not to mention one more decision that the newbie is not equipped to make. I > wish there were a way to catch people right before they encounter their > first major Ruby headache and funnel them to rbenv/rvm just in time. > > Ian > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 04:15 PM, Rebecca Colavin wrote: > > Hi Peter. > > There's a lesson here somewhere.... it may be "if you had installed El > Capitan in a timely manner you would have heard about this when we were all > talking about it" or "searching StackOverFlow requires some level of > understanding" or possibly "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, > you shall be avenged." > > It's always so simple once you know the answer. > > Thanks for the support, > > Rebecca > > On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:57:39 PM UTC-8, Peter Fitzgibbons wrote: > > You updated Ruby. The update to El Capitan breaks some of the dynamic > links that were compiled into ruby. > The El cap upgrade also btw breaks many homebrew installs. I personally > had to uninstall/reinstall many of the homebrew apps (postgres, redis, etc) > Thanks for posting your findings! > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:49 PM Rebecca Colavin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy All > > This was supposed to be a post begging for help... I have been having a > segmentation fault when running "rails generate rspec:install" on a Mac. No > posts on StackOverflow (stop spring etc) were any help whatsoever. Just > before submitting to the group, I updated from OSX from Yosemite to El > Cap, uninstalled and reinstalled rails, postgresql (I had previously had > issues with installing the pg gem) and rspec. I updated ruby (2.0.0 to > 2.0.0p643). > > Note that I had previously tried reinstalling rails with no effect > whatsoever on the problem. > > I had previously been able to use rspec without incident. I do not know > which particular dependency caused the problem but I just wanted to post > here so the issue (and lame-brain solution) is documented. If someone has > an idea what might have been the actual problem, that might be useful! I > have the diagnostic report, if you should a need for a headache (I > certainly have one). > > I hope my experience may be of help to some other poor newbie. > > Thank you, > > Rebecca > > > > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
