Comments on: RailsRally 2007 and GemsOnRails http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/ Ruby makes Rails, Javascript makes Ajax, Dr Nic makes Magic Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:52:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Vivs http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-189705 Vivs Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:51:15 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-189705 i m using magic_multi_connection gem and my site is located on VPS server which i can't restart. But if i want my gem to work i have to write "require magic_multi_connection" of environment.rb file and to make that thing run on live server i have to restart live domain server so that environment.rb file gets executed. So is there any other way that i can directly upload my stuffs and make it working after freezing the gem without restarting the live server. If i m mistaken some where then please let me know. i m using magic_multi_connection gem and my site is located on VPS server which i can’t restart. But if i want my gem to work i have to write “require magic_multi_connection” of environment.rb file and to make that thing run on live server i have to restart live domain server so that environment.rb file gets executed.
So is there any other way that i can directly upload my stuffs and make it working after freezing the gem without restarting the live server.
If i m mistaken some where then please let me know.

]]> By: Dr Nic http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-123872 Dr Nic Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:36:23 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-123872 @Adam - if you're using Rails 2.1 I recommend using the in-built gem support and the accompanying rake tasks. Regarding your problem, I just reinstalled gemsonrails and the cmd-line app appears for me. The placement of 'gemsonrails' application into your path is supported by RubyGems, and works in the same way that you have access to the 'rails' application. Not sure why it would fail. @Adam – if you’re using Rails 2.1 I recommend using the in-built gem support and the accompanying rake tasks.

Regarding your problem, I just reinstalled gemsonrails and the cmd-line app appears for me. The placement of ‘gemsonrails’ application into your path is supported by RubyGems, and works in the same way that you have access to the ‘rails’ application. Not sure why it would fail.

]]> By: Adam Falcone http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-123870 Adam Falcone Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:32:17 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-123870 I know this is a simple question but I'm just getting started. I did: > gem install gemsonrails "no problem" > cd rails-app-folder "no problem" > gemsonrails "gemsonrails command not found" can someone please let me know why I can't deploy this gem to my application using the above command. Thanks. I know this is a simple question but I’m just getting started.

I did:
> gem install gemsonrails

“no problem”

> cd rails-app-folder

“no problem”

> gemsonrails

“gemsonrails command not found”

can someone please let me know why I can’t deploy this gem to my application using the above command. Thanks.

]]> By: links for 2008-04-04 | Libin Pan http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-79521 links for 2008-04-04 | Libin Pan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:39:40 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-79521 [...] Dr Nic » RailsRally 2007 and GemsOnRails This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source (inspired by Rick Olsen’s gems plugin) (tags: development gem gems plugin plugins rake rails rubyonrails ruby programming) [...] [...] Dr Nic » RailsRally 2007 and GemsOnRails This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source (inspired by Rick Olsen’s gems plugin) (tags: development gem gems plugin plugins rake rails rubyonrails ruby programming) [...]

]]> By: NAYAK http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-48311 NAYAK Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:26:20 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-48311 I would like to know how can I load gems based on the underlying platform, Eg I need json gem to be freezed in my application and json gem comes in 2 version json-mswin32 and json (for linux etc). My problem is that I need to load either one of the json gem based on the underlying platform. I would like to know how can I load gems based on the underlying platform,
Eg I need json gem to be freezed in my application and json gem comes in 2 version json-mswin32 and json (for linux etc). My problem is that I need to load either one of the json gem based on the underlying platform.

]]> By: manjax23 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-46804 manjax23 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:15:49 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-46804 Cool, Thanks. Appreciate your plugin concept. I think adding/freezing gems manually would take a nerve and it would be great if your plugin could automatically identify the plugins required by the application and unpacks them along with dependency. Or other nicer approach would be to maintain a registry of plugins for the rails application, get the list of plugins and unpack and link (or freeze) them into the application. Cool, Thanks. Appreciate your plugin concept.
I think adding/freezing gems manually would take a nerve and it would be great if your plugin could automatically identify the plugins required by the application and unpacks them along with dependency.
Or other nicer approach would be to maintain a registry of plugins for the rails application, get the list of plugins and unpack and link (or freeze) them into the application.

]]> By: Dr Nic http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-46697 Dr Nic Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:53:37 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-46697 @manjax23 [<a href='http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-46685' rel="nofollow">via</a>] - currently there aren't many more benefits than manually doing the unpack yourself + adding an init.rb. Initially it was a starting point for adding more "vendor everything" functionality. Currently, I'm leaning towards a <a href="http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8511" rel="nofollow">rails patch</a> that adds dependency support etc, written by Marcel Molina Jr. RubyGems itself is a moving target which is holding back the acceptance of the patch. Hopefully the patch is applied for Rails 2.0. @manjax23 [via] – currently there aren’t many more benefits than manually doing the unpack yourself + adding an init.rb. Initially it was a starting point for adding more “vendor everything” functionality. Currently, I’m leaning towards a rails patch that adds dependency support etc, written by Marcel Molina Jr. RubyGems itself is a moving target which is holding back the acceptance of the patch. Hopefully the patch is applied for Rails 2.0.

]]> By: manjax23 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-46685 manjax23 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:09:20 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-46685 I am a newbie and am trying to figure out whether there any specific advantages of this plugin? I think We can still achieve the same functionality with gem unpack > and $LOAD_PATH.unshift >/lib in environment.rb file. I am a newbie and am trying to figure out whether there any specific advantages of this plugin?
I think We can still achieve the same functionality with gem unpack > and $LOAD_PATH.unshift >/lib in environment.rb file.

]]> By: RUBYroid» Blog Archive » Gems. Plugins. Plugems. GemsOnRails. http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-39435 RUBYroid» Blog Archive » Gems. Plugins. Plugems. GemsOnRails. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:37:23 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-39435 [...] Гемы в качестве плагинов [...] [...] Гемы в качестве плагинов [...]

]]> By: Matt Scilipoti http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/comment-page-1/#comment-33782 Matt Scilipoti Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:29:48 +0000 http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/02/09/railsrally-2007-and-gemsonrails/#comment-33782 @gemsonrails developers: This is a notice to save other developers from my mistakes. I have been tweaking gemsonrails to handle non-standard require/init conventions (patch will be shared presently). My frustration arrived when I ran 'gem local_deploy' and then 'rake freeze:gem GEM=xyz'. My changes to freeze:gem were not present. Incremented Version? Check. Manual inspection of the, newly installed, gemsonrails source showed the appropriate code. I even un-installed prior gemsonrails, just in case. The issue? The gemsonrails gem is a fancy, shmancy code generator. I had to run 'gemsonrails' and actually generate the new rake tasks. Problem solved. In my defense, I had researched newgem and hoe, figured out how to create a local deploy, run into the sh('gem install...') and the tar/zip issues on Windows AFTER I had tweaked the code in gemsonrails that generated the rake tasks. Still... you'd think it would have come to me sooner. I'm blaming 1am. @Dr. Nic - Thanks for this great tool - and the others too. And thank for the wonderful distraction I have had from my 'normal project'. This has been fun! I think I even identified some of the dreaded Rake sh command issues on Windows. We'll see. +1 load order by gems' own dependencies. I'm interested in that code. @gemsonrails developers: This is a notice to save other developers from my mistakes. I have been tweaking gemsonrails to handle non-standard require/init conventions (patch will be shared presently). My frustration arrived when I ran ‘gem local_deploy’ and then ‘rake freeze:gem GEM=xyz’. My changes to freeze:gem were not present. Incremented Version? Check. Manual inspection of the, newly installed, gemsonrails source showed the appropriate code. I even un-installed prior gemsonrails, just in case.

The issue? The gemsonrails gem is a fancy, shmancy code generator. I had to run ‘gemsonrails’ and actually generate the new rake tasks. Problem solved.

In my defense, I had researched newgem and hoe, figured out how to create a local deploy, run into the sh(‘gem install…’) and the tar/zip issues on Windows AFTER I had tweaked the code in gemsonrails that generated the rake tasks. Still… you’d think it would have come to me sooner. I’m blaming 1am.

@Dr. Nic – Thanks for this great tool – and the others too. And thank for the wonderful distraction I have had from my ‘normal project’. This has been fun! I think I even identified some of the dreaded Rake sh command issues on Windows. We’ll see.

+1 load order by gems’ own dependencies. I’m interested in that code.

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