Thanks Rick for this warning.... most important should do a clone backup on external hard disk before upgrade...
good articles : http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard/ erwin On Aug 30, 2:20 pm, Rick DeNatale <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of ruby/rails developers are Mac users so I thought this might be > of interest here. > > Here are some bumps I've had in the upgrade. > > 1) If you are using any macport installed software, get a list before > you upgrade: > > $port installed > myports.txt > > You're going to need to get the latest Xcode and macports and > reinstall al of your ports. I couldn't get a list of ports after I > reinstalled macports, and port wouldn't work at all before I did. > > Don't know if this is similar if you use fink, since I don't use it. > > 2) Backup any crucial mysql dbs before the upgrade. Luckily for me I > didn't have any CRUCIAL dbs. > > 3) Not exactly sure about this one, but I found that after the > upgrade, I had rubygems 1.2.0!!!!!! and it couldn't be updated to the > latest. Not sure exactly why, since I ended up installing ruby and > gems from source, which is what I normally do since I prefer to have > control over what version(s) I'm running and not be dependent on > Apple. I do the same thing on my linux system. > > My theory as to what happened here was that since I'd bypassed the > ruby install on Leopard by symlinking from /usr/bin to the source > installed binaries, the Snow Leopard install got confused and I ended > up with the old Leopard installed rubygems being active. But I'm not > sure. > > Forewarned is forearmed. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
