I agree - the explicit dependencies and not installing thing is a pain in the arse. Explicit is better because you make 100% sure when it runs it will run properly, but not installing the required stack is crazy.
The merb error messge you're complaining about is not that it's insecure, it's that it needs to write to folders that it can't. Bad error message. But, if you've been devving with rails for so long, you really should know this man. Permissions. Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ On 05/02/2009, at 1:02 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected] > wrote: > > I've been developing with rails for a couple of years and I'm finally > getting around to trying merb for the first time. The instructions on > the home page seemed simple enough, but I've run into a couple of > problems before even seeing the welcome page. > > The first time i tried running merb, I got > > Loading init file from /Users/pcf/prac/merb/my_application/config/ > init.rb > Loading /Users/pcf/prac/merb/my_application/config/environments/ > development.rb > /Users/prec is insecure (40730). It may not be group or world > writable. Exiting. > > After figuring out that 'may not be' meant 'can not be' and not 'might > not be', I removed group write permission from the directory and tried > again. This time I got. > > ~ FATAL: The gem data_objects (= 0.9.10.1, runtime), [] was not > found > > I apparently had version 0.9.10.1. I installed the required version > and was rewarded with > > ~ FATAL: The gem do_sqlite3 (= 0.9.10.1, runtime), [] was not > found > > I managed to find dependencies.rb before totally losing my sanity, and > I changed dm_gems_version and do_gems_version to ">=0.9.10.1" so I can > finally see the fresh merb app screen, but I'm left with a couple of > questions before I go too much farther: > > 1) Why does merb REFUSE to run in a DEVELOPMENT environment if it > deems my home directory 'insecure', and what other directories or > resources is it going to monitor for me? > > 2) What's with the dependencies? Are things likely to break because I > changed = to >= ? Am I going to have to drag around a vendor > directory with all verions of all pages or make sure the gems on all > machines have every version of every gem? Or if I get around to RTFM- > ing will I find out there's some cool built-in solution? > > thanks, > glenn > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
