Apologies for it seeming convincing. Regarding your central problem:
# some gems feature compiled C extensions - these need to be recompiled on
your
# target deployment platform (use Capistrano, God...)
thor merb:gems:redeploy

That will recompile any C extensions on your target platform.

-- Yehuda


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Jon Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I am attempting to work with merb edge.  In the past this seemed a
> simple thing but now I am educating myself on the use of thor as the
> new new way to work with edge and package it inside my project.  I
> have a few questions and concerns.
>
> Synch-ing from dev to test or production pushes lots of stuff.  How
> are platform specific compiles handled when I re-checkout on my
> production server?
> So I follow the instructions from here
>
> http://wiki.merbivore.com/pages/getting-merb-and-datamapper-edge-step-by-step
> and/or<http://wiki.merbivore.com/pages/getting-merb-and-datamapper-edge-step-by-stepand/or>
>  here
> http://merbunity.com/tutorials/18
> This pulls git repos into my local app structure and packages gems.
> I'm doing this under OS X.  I deploy on linux.  Some of this code has
> C  that needs to be recompiled (meaning gems repackaged?) for the
> target machine.  How does this happen?  I assume I am supposed to push
> from my OS X git repo to my production machine.  But don't i need to
> rebuild those platform specific object files?
>
> All I want is two things:
> 1 - be able to develop on edge or some other version from git.
> 2 - be able to deploy what I"ve tested with
>
> At the moment, this thor thing seems overkill and isn't working for
> me.  I moved from Rails to merb to get away from complexity.
>
> Any help please?
>
> thanks, Jon
> http://shellshadow.com
>
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>


-- 
Yehuda Katz
Developer | Engine Yard
(ph) 718.877.1325

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