I have searched the OpenSolaris forums for the past several hours, and visited
a few dozen Google sites on installing Rails on OpenSolaris, without resolving
this problem.
Perhaps I am not up on my game of IPS hacking yet, but if anyone is able to get
a clean OpenSolaris 2008-05 system up running as a Ruby on Rails development
platform, please give me a little nudge in the right direction.
% pfexec gem update
% pfexec gem install rails --include-dependencies
This works without error and installs rails 2.0.2 with all dependencies.
However, both [/usr/ruby/1.8/bin/rails] and [/usr/ruby/1.8/bin/rake] are
installed with the wrong permissions:
% pfexec chmod a+rx /usr/ruby/1.8/bin/rails /usr/ruby/1.8/bin/rake
...and their links are not created in [/usr/bin]:
% cd /usr/bin && pfexec ln -s ../ruby/1.8/bin/rails rails && pfexec ln -s
../ruby/1.8/bin/rake rake
However, even after this is done, most of the files in [/var/ruby/1.8/gem_home]
seem to have incorrect permissions. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
% pfexec chmod -R a+r /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home/*
Dispite all the above changes, when I execute the following, I get an error:
% cd ~ && rails test
/usr/bin/rails:16:in `load': no such file to load -- rails (LoadError)
from /usr/bin/rails:16
Indeed, line 16 of the [/usr/bin/rails --> /usr/ruby/1.8/bin/rails] ends with a
command to [load 'rails'].
By the way, I have installed the following IPS packages to get started, but
there may be one that I'm missing. (This list is not all inclusive.)
gcc-dev
ss-dev
java-dev
netbeans
ruby-dev
sunstudioexpress
webstackui
Thanks in advance,
Karrick
opensolaris (at) karrick (dot) net
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