Thanks Ian.
I have a good basic understanding of getting an app up and running (thanks
LEARN academy!) so learning to use the tools you mention is the sensible
next step.
Best,
Rebecca
On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:31:12 PM UTC-8, Ian Young 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
>
>
>
>
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