At the risk of sparking another flame war, the best way to manage Ruby library dependencies is via Rubygems rather than your platform's packaging system -- which tends to have out of date Ruby packages and can conflict with installed gems[1]. Fortunately, it is entirely possible and in fact quite easy to install and use Rubygems as a local user (rather than root)[2]. We've done our best to remove external dependencies but this one unfortunately remains.
The bottom line is that rake 0.8.4 is the first known-good version for the version of Rails that Dashboard uses and, as such, the first that we currently support. However, the rake install task (which is the only thing that requires rake aside from running the spec suite) may work or be made to work with older versions of rake. We would be happy to bump the dependency down to 0.8.3 to provide out-of-the-box support for RHEL5 and will gratefully accept patches that let us do that. [1] See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails [2] http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Bummer. Requires rake >= 0.8.4, but RHEL5/EPEL is only 0.8.3. > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/rubygem-rake.html > > > On Dec 14, 3:29 pm, Rein Henrichs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings Puppeteers, > > > > It's the holidays once again and, in the spirit of the season, I bring > you > > the immediate release of Puppet Dashboard 0.1.0, codenamed "Wira". > Because > > the Wira is a car. From Malaysia. And cars have dashboards. Even cars > from > > Malaysia. > > > > This release includes run success and total run time graphs and a global > > status drop-down tab that provides at-a-glance system status updates. We > are > > still deciding on which information to present where and how best to > present > > it, so expect these to change in upcoming releases as we converge on the > > most useful set of data to display. Coincidentally, this would be a great > > time to tell us which information is most important to you on which > pages. > > You could even reply to this message on the list if you want (hint). > > > > Also, at the request of just about everyone, I've posted a tour of the > > latest Dashboard release on the Reductive Labs blog athttp:// > reductivelabs.com/2009/12/14/a-tour-of-puppet-dashboard-0-1-0. Yes, > > it includes screenshots. Huzzah. > > > > Get the code athttp://github.com/reductivelabs/puppet-dashboard. > > Submit feature requests and bug reports athttp:// > projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/dashboard. > > > > Have a great holiday season, folks. > > > > -- > > Rein Henrichshttp://reductivelabs.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > -- Rein Henrichs http://reductivelabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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/puppet-users?hl=en.
