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- Sam Ruby On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 7:13 PM Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > Thank you so much. I am now seeing Podling Roster pages on my whimsy.local! > > Regards, > Dave > > > On Apr 25, 2019, at 3:37 PM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > > > Background: due to a number of unfortunate choices by the brew team, that > > tool is no longer as helpful as it used to be for installing Ruby or Apache > > httpd. Shane and Dave Fischer are working through this with rbenv, a > > journey that is made more difficult because they don't know how these parts > > of of the system fit together. > > > > So, a quick brain dump. First an easy observation: ruby packages are > > called gems. Ruby gems may have executables (bundler being an example). > > Gems are maintained on a per-minor version of Ruby basis, meaning that > > upgrading from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 doesn't require you to install new gems, but > > upgrading to 2.5.1 does. > > > > Running the 'gem env' will tell you everything you need to know about the > > paths that are used. In practice, none of that matters. What matters is > > that 'gem' command is an executable and at any point in time is associated > > with a given version of Ruby. If that version of Ruby is different than > > the version that is used by the 'ruby' command or passenger, then you will > > experience issues. Issues like not being able to find the bundler gem when > > you know darn well that you installed it. > > > > rbenv manages this by creating shells or binstubs: small scripts that wrap > > each command. To use rbenv correctly means adding the rbenv directory to > > your path. Reading that part of the rbenv documentation is critical. Get > > the path right, everything else works. Get the path wrong, and bad things > > happen. > > > > Once you have a webserver up and running, whimsy endpoints are helpful. The > > first is: > > > > https://whimsy.apache.org/test.cgi?debug > > > > This runs ruby as a CGI script, which is quite different than running ruby > > as a passenger/sinatra/rack application. To see the equivalent for such > > applications, go to: > > > > https://whimsy.apache.org/racktest/ > > > > Obviously, adjust the hostname to match your host. Perhaps 127.0.0.1, or > > (if you have configured it in your /etc/hosts and Apache configuration) > > whimsy.local. > > > > - Sam Ruby >
