Hey Rebecca,
I think the lesson here is "use rbenv or rvm". These tools let you
control your version of Ruby and upgrade on your own time rather than
when your OS decides to. And just as importantly, they give you a Ruby
that's a known quantity rather than whatever random changeset the OS
developers grabbed and patched with who-knows-what and compiled with
whatever flags they felt like using. If every Rubyist was using these
tools, we'd see a vast reduction in overall grief.
However, I am conflicted about offering that advice to someone who's
starting with Ruby for the very first time. The process of getting your
first Rails app from zero to booted is already pretty long and filled
with installing and configuring mysterious things ("Ok, I downloaded
Xcode, now I need homebrew, I guess? Wait, why am I installing Node.js?
What's a coffee script?"), and rbenv/rvm adds one more mysterious tool
to configure, not to mention one more decision that the newbie is not
equipped to make. I wish there were a way to catch people right before
they encounter their first major Ruby headache and funnel them to
rbenv/rvm just in time.
Ian
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 04:15 PM, Rebecca Colavin wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
> There's a lesson here somewhere.... it may be "if you had installed El
> Capitan in a timely manner you would have heard about this when we
> were all talking about it" or "searching StackOverFlow requires some
> level of understanding" or possibly "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns
> of Worvan, you shall be avenged."
>
> It's always so simple once you know the answer.
>
> Thanks for the support,
>
> Rebecca
>
> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:57:39 PM UTC-8, Peter
> Fitzgibbons wrote:
>> You updated Ruby. The update to El Capitan breaks some of the
>> dynamic links that were compiled into ruby. The El cap upgrade also
>> btw breaks many homebrew installs. I personally had to
>> uninstall/reinstall many of the homebrew apps (postgres, redis, etc)
>> Thanks for posting your findings!
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:49 PM Rebecca Colavin
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Howdy All
>>>
>>> This was supposed to be a post begging for help... I have been
>>> having a segmentation fault when running "rails generate
>>> rspec:install" on a Mac. No posts on StackOverflow (stop spring etc)
>>> were any help whatsoever. Just before submitting to the group, I
>>> updated from OSX from Yosemite to El Cap, uninstalled and
>>> reinstalled rails, postgresql (I had previously had issues with
>>> installing the pg gem) and rspec. I updated ruby (2.0.0 to
>>> 2.0.0p643).
>>>
>>> Note that I had previously tried reinstalling rails with no effect
>>> whatsoever on the problem.
>>>
>>> I had previously been able to use rspec without incident. I do not
>>> know which particular dependency caused the problem but I just
>>> wanted to post here so the issue (and lame-brain solution) is
>>> documented. If someone has an idea what might have been the actual
>>> problem, that might be useful! I have the diagnostic report, if you
>>> should a need for a headache (I certainly have one).
>>>
>>> I hope my experience may be of help to some other poor newbie.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Rebecca
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
--
>>>
SD Ruby mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
>>>
---
>>>
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD
Ruby" group.
>>>
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
>>>
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
> --
>
--
>
SD Ruby mailing list
>
[email protected]
> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
>
---
>
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD
Ruby" group.
>
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
>
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
--
SD Ruby mailing list
[email protected]
http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD
Ruby" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
