RubyStack problems with Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I installed RubyStack today on Snow Leopard. Then I did a cd /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/projects/rubystack, and launched rails via ruby script/server

I then tried to follow the recommendations on the Welcome Aboard page. script/generate fails as follows:

Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.2 (you have 1.3.1). Please `gem update —system` and try again.

However, this is a reference to the Apple Ruby install, as the Bitnami package has installed RubyGems 1.3.5

The pwd command indicates that I’m still in the Bitnami-installed directory, so why is it going to the Apple location.

gem update —system fails similarly, as it runs from /usr/local/bin.

So, why do the items I installed through Bitnami’s RubyStack escape to run from /usr/local/bin when I try to use them?

Do I have to make some PATH change that isn’t mentioned in the Bitnami document?

Thanks,
Tom

Hi,

BitNami RubyStack is self-contained and independent of your system. You should load the Stack environment before running a Ruby command. For example, if you open a Terminal and execute “which ruby” you can see that you are running the system Ruby command. To load the environment variables you should run the “rubyconsole” before running any command:

$ cd /Applications/rubystack-
$ ./rubyconsole
$ which ruby

Now you can see that you are running the Ruby Stack command. Now try to start the servers and everything should run well.

Thanks. Your advice got me past this problem.

Tom

Now I have a new problem trying to use an existing Rails app in the RubyStack environment on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). When I try to access the app at http://localhost:3000 or at http://127.0.0.1:3000/ I get an error from MySQL:

bash-3.2$ => Booting Mongrel
=> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server

bash-3.2$ /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Mon Jan 04 21:29:38 -0500 2010
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
Access denied for user ’rubystack’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:589:in `real_connect’
… which is then followed by a pile of errors that result from this.

The app I’m running is /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/projects/expenses

The relevant part of /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/projects/expenses/config/database.yml is:

When I try to run

rake db:migrate

I get the same "Access denied " error: Access denied for user ’rubystack’@’localhost’ to database ‘expenses_development’

This is all the information I can find in any of the logs, except for the cascade of subsequent errors in each case. At this point, I am stumped. I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks,
Tom

Hi Tom,

The connection error can be related to different things:

Is the database running ? You can check this using:

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/ctlscript.sh status

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/ctlscript.sh start mysql

Did you create the rubystack user? You can check if it exists connecting to MySQL as ‘root’ with the password provided during installation:

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -ppasswdduringinstallation -S /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -e "select user from mysql.user;"

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -ppasswdduringinstallation -S /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -e "show databases;"

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/bin/mysql -u rubystack -pbabush -S /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock expenses_development

If not you may create both the database and the user with appropriate privileges running:

/Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -ppasswdduringinstallation -S /Applications/rubystack-2.0-1/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS expenses_development;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on expenses_development.* to 'rubystack'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'babush';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Let us know if it works for you

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Hi, Could you post the error which is in the mongrel.log file?