Hi Jerome, Thank you for your comment. I realise now this was what I was supposed to do. Let me describe what I did and your feedback can help me decide whether I can continue with what I've done or should go back to the backup I made before starting my experiments, using clonevdi (using VBoxManage).
So.. What I did was: 1) sudo gem update --system 2) sudo gem update 3) sudo gem install -v=2.3.5 rails --include-dependencies In more detail, what happened, including some problems on the way: 1) ----- virtualra...@jay ~ $ sudo gem update --system [sudo] password for virtualrails: Updating RubyGems Updating rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.7 Updating RubyGems to 1.3.7 Installing RubyGems 1.3.7 RubyGems 1.3.7 installed === 1.3.7 / 2010-05-13 NOTE: http://rubygems.org is now the default source for downloading gems. You may have sources set via ~/.gemrc, so you should replace http://gems.rubyforge.org with http://rubygems.org http://gems.rubyforge.org will continue to work for the forseeable future. New features: * `gem` commands * `gem install` and `gem fetch` now report alternate platforms when a matching one couldn't be found. * `gem contents` --prefix is now the default as specified in -- help. Bug #27211 by Mamoru Tasaka. * `gem fetch` can fetch of old versions again. Bug #27960 by Eric Hankins. * `gem query` and friends output now lists platforms. Bug #27856 by Greg Hazel. * `gem server` now allows specification of multiple gem dirs for documentation. Bug #27573 by Yuki Sonoda. * `gem unpack` can unpack gems again. Bug #27872 by Timothy Jones. * `gem unpack` now unpacks remote gems. * --user-install is no longer the default. If you really liked it, see Gem::ConfigFile to learn how to set it by default. (This change was made in 1.3.6) * RubyGems now has platform support for IronRuby. Patch #27951 by Will Green. Bug fixes: * Require rubygems/custom_require if --disable-gem was set. Bug #27700 by Roger Pack. * RubyGems now protects against exceptions being raised by plugins. * rubygems/builder now requires user_interaction. Ruby Bug #1040 by Phillip Toland. * Gem::Dependency support #version_requirements= with a warning. Fix for old Rails versions. Bug #27868 by Wei Jen Lu. * Gem::PackageTask depends on the package dir like the other rake package tasks so dependencies can be hooked up correctly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RubyGems installed the following executables: /opt/rubystack-2.0-0/ruby/bin/gem virtualra...@jay ~ $ gem -v 1.3.7 ---------------------- OK: This seemed to upgrade successfully RubyGems from 1.3.5 to Version 1.3.7 2) ------ virtualra...@jay ~ $ sudo gem update Updating installed gems Updating RedCloth Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed RedCloth-4.2.3 Updating ZenTest Successfully installed ZenTest-4.3.3 Updating after_commit tcmalloc: large alloc 1349521408 bytes == (nil) @ tcmalloc: large alloc 2428973056 bytes == (nil) @ tcmalloc: large alloc 3574456320 bytes == (nil) @ tcmalloc: large alloc 4021641216 bytes == (nil) @ Successfully installed after_commit-1.0.7 Updating capistrano Successfully installed capistrano-2.5.19 Updating cucumber Building native extensions. This could take a while... (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) U P G R A D I N G (::) Thank you for installing cucumber-0.8.3. Please be sure to read http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/upgrading for important information about this release. Happy cuking! (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) (::) Successfully installed trollop-1.16.2 Successfully installed gherkin-2.0.2 Successfully installed json_pure-1.4.3 Successfully installed cucumber-0.8.3 Updating daemons Successfully installed daemons-1.1.0 Updating delayed_job Successfully installed delayed_job-2.0.3 Updating echoe ======================================================================== Thanks for installing Gemcutter! You can now run: gem push merged into RubyGems 1.3.6 gem owner merged into RubyGems 1.3.6 gem webhook register urls to be pinged when gems are pushed gem yank remove a specific version of a gem from RubyGems.org ======================================================================== Successfully installed gemcutter-0.5.0 Successfully installed echoe-4.3.1 Updating god Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed god-0.11.0 Updating highline Successfully installed highline-1.5.2 Updating hoe Successfully installed rubyforge-2.0.4 Successfully installed hoe-2.6.1 Updating memcache-client Successfully installed memcache-client-1.8.5 Updating net-sftp Successfully installed net-sftp-2.0.4 Updating net-ssh Successfully installed net-ssh-2.0.23 Updating nokogiri Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing nokogiri: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /opt/rubystack-2.0-0/ruby/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for iconv.h... yes checking for libxml/parser.h... no ----- libxml2 is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies. ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/opt/rubystack-2.0-0/ruby/bin/ruby --with-zlib-dir --without-zlib-dir --with-zlib-include --without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include --with-zlib-lib --without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib --with-iconv-dir --without-iconv-dir --with-iconv-include --without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include --with-iconv-lib --without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib --with-xml2-dir --without-xml2-dir --with-xml2-include --without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include --with-xml2-lib --without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib --with-xslt-dir --without-xslt-dir --with-xslt-include --without-xslt-include=${xslt-dir}/include --with-xslt-lib --without-xslt-lib=${xslt-dir}/lib Gem files will remain installed in /opt/rubystack-2.0-0/ruby/lib/ruby/ gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.4.2 for inspection. Results logged to /opt/rubystack-2.0-0/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ nokogiri-1.4.2/ext/nokogiri/gem_make.out Updating passenger ERROR: While executing gem ... (Zlib::DataError) invalid stored block lengths --------------------------------------------- Here, nokogiri didn't upgrade.. so tried the following: ------------------------------------------------- 3) sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev sudo gem install nokogiri Err.. don't find the trace for it but then it started complaining Zlib and didn't install nokogiri 4) Anyway, I don't know whether nokogiri should be of a problem.. I decided to go ahead and try to install rails 2.3.5 since as I suspected, sudo gem update install rails 2.3.8. -------------------------- Now, wanting to give the trace here I retyped step 3 and it caused some problems.. What I'm going to do now I think is go back to my backup anyway.. I'm leaving the beginning of my message here, thinking maybe the information about nokogiri is relevant for your information.. Anyway, since it seems I'm going to go back to my backup-version - I'm re-asking my question: Should I just follow your instructions and update to rails 2.3.5? Should I refrain from doing sudo gem update --system and sudo gem update? Should rails 2.3.8 or any other updates cause me any trouble? Do you recommend me to stick with rails 2.3.5 rather than 2.3.8? Thanks!! Sorry for the confusion in my message.. my terminal seems to have crashed from retyping step 3.. as I'm really a beginner I wasn't aware of the fact I was doing something obviously wrong here.. [blush] Also, talking about being a newbie reminded me of another question I have, not related to VirtualRails but to being a Linux beginner and that is the following: Where should I put my files and directories? and, more spcifically, where should I put my RoR development libraries? should I create a directory under /home/virtualrails/ or is there a different place I should be aiming and looking into? Many thanks, Appreciate the answers here.. Best, tino On Jul 7, 12:08 am, Jerome Fillioux <[email protected]> wrote: > tinoD wrote: > > Hi, > > > Have been trying to set up Linux on my Windows machine, using > > VirtualBox.. > > > Installed VirtualRails to give it a try as well.. > > > I did notice VR was using Rails version 2.3.4 rather than 2.3.5 (rails > > -v gives 2.3.4) as specified on Some of VR's documentation (some > > places mention rails 2.3.4 and some rails 2.3.5, like here: > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_frm/thread/9fc... > > ) > > > Have been trying to update to rails 2.3.5 using gem install and gem > > update, specifying the version.. but so far didn't manage to do so.. > > I'm not sure how as well, being a complete newbie to Linux, and also > > afraid to cause any damage.. was also afraid to update gems I do not > > wish to update or to update rails to 2.3.8 while I wanted 2.3.5 and > > don't feel confident I know how to change it back yet.. > > > Maybe it's not an issue and I should do with rails 2.3.4.. now I'm > > also curious to know how and whether this should be done at all > > > Any comments and replies will be very much appreciated :) > > > Thanks! > > > Best, > > tino. > > Hi Tino, > > Thanks for using VirtualRails :) > you're right, there was a mistake in our documentation, now the Rails > version mentioned vor virtualrails 1.1 will be everywhere 2.3.4, and we > will soon release a new version with rails 2.3.5 rails. > > with the actual 1.1 version, you can open a terminal and run the > following command : > sudo gem install rails --version 2.3.5 > > it works just fine, and you will have the followinf output : > > virtualra...@jay ~ $ sudo gem install rails --version 2.3.5 > [sudo] password for virtualrails: > > Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.5 > Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.5 > Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.5 > Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.5 > Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.5 > Successfully installed rails-2.3.5 > 6 gems installed > Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.5... > Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.3.5... > Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.3.5... > Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.3.5... > Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.3.5... > Installing ri documentation for rails-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.3.5... > Installing RDoc documentation for rails-2.3.5... > > hope it will help :) > please feel free to send me support questions if you have troubles using > VirtualRails ! > > Jérôme Fillioux > VirtualRails Team > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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