hello everyone, i’m just starting out my adventure on rails with mac osx
and have so far done both the rolling on rails tutorials from onLamp,
and have tinkered around a bit myself playing with scaffold etc.
I downloaded and printed the excellent four days on rails tutorials pdf
and as excited to see that i got to have a play around with the code
that the scaffold generates (as in the onLamp tutorials you don’t get to
see this, you just re-define aspects of it) i was also however, scared
to see that it requires a different version of rails to the version i am
using and wasnt sure how well it would all fare up.
When i first started to get into the idea of developing ror i looke
around for a nice solution to develop in, i concluded that a combination
on textmate / locomotive & terminal was best.
Since starting the four days on rails tutorial however, i have had
nothing but problems, and am starting to think that it is in fact down
to my development enviroment…
So ruby on rails experts (on mac) i’m asking you this:
What is the best set of tools for developing / learning ruby on rails on
mac os x 10.4???
my current list:
locomotive (chose for 1 click set-up)
manual ruby / rails install
textmate
mysql 5 (point something)
cocoa mysql (beta) for mysql gui
safari
what do you guys use? what was you learning toolset? why can’t i do this
bloody four days on rails tutorial? (it just wont do script/generate
scaffold category on page 9)
please help.
Many Thanks,
Craig
Looks like your set of tools is fine.
What specific error do you get when trying to run the script/generate?
ssmith wrote:
Looks like your set of tools is fine.
What specific error do you get when trying to run the script/generate?
well it all sort of stems from when i’m asked to force it to use the
version of rails used in the manual, as far as i can tell the download
of rails 0.12.1 (the version recommended in the pdf) happens fine, and i
get no specific error messages when i edit the enviroment.rb
So when i do that none of the model / controller generates work…
if i skip that bit the model / controller generates work fine but the
generate scaffold (which acording to the pdf will reveal all of the gode
generated so wew can have a play around) dosen’t work at all i type the
command at the terminal i’m just returned back to the command promt
thing [$ruby - the account username 
]
if my toolset and the way i’ve got it all set up is fine, then why can’t
i get this to work???
On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:37 AM, craigtmackenzie wrote:
locomotive (chose for 1 click set-up)
manual ruby / rails install
These are mutually exclusive. You’re actually running one or the
other. To get a Terminal window with all of the Locomotive paths
setup, you need to launch the Terminal from within Locomotive itself.
HTH…
–Steve
Your choice of tools is not really causing the problem you’re
seeing. I suspect you’re correct in that it has something to do with
the version of rails (can’t recall if you already had another version
installed or not but it’s possible there’s some sort of conflict /
incompatibility if you did).
You may want to reinstall rails (clean) and try the tutorial you
mentioned with it. If the tutorial doesn’t work with this version of
rails, then that would be an excellent way of learning what’s
changed, etc. Here’s a good article that goes into the setup step-by-
step (it even includes instructions on how to set up lightTPD):
ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
When you create your rails project “rails my_project”, you run
script/server from the my_project dir. That will start up a server at
port 3000.
Pat
On 12/4/05, craigtmackenzie [email protected]
so i’ve followed all the instructions in the link that ssmith provided
and have done that, presumbaley i no should be able to run through the
tutorial without any problems, one quick question how do i get the
results into safari? with locomotive i could define servers/ports etc.
to view projects on how would i using this method? is there some
terminal command or something? or do i have to create all my rails
projects in a special directory?
so i would get to it from:
http://localhost:3000/my_project
is that right? and the script/server thing does that run webrick? what
is lightTPD???
ok brilliant i’m thinking i can get on with the four days on rails thing
ok now, just out of curiosity; the four days on rails tutorial uses
rails 0.12.1, and i’m using 1.14.3
in the tutorial the guy runs the following
rails ToDo
cd ~/ToDo
script/generate model category
script/generate controller category
[writes scaffold code into category_controller.rb]
script/generate scaffold category
he says that this generates his scaffold code and he can see it all and
play around with it, using the same code on rails 1.14.3 results in the
shell reoprting that i should set up a table in the databse or
something??? anybody know how to achieve the same result (ie. revelaing
all of the scaffold code so i can have a play around in it??) in
1.14.3??? many thanks
No, you’d get to it from http://localhost:3000
Yes, script/server runs webrick unless you have lighttpd installed, I
think. lighttpd is a web server, like apache. www.lighttpd.net
Pat
On 12/4/05, craigtmackenzie [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
in the tutorial should be a schema for the database, go ahead and set
that up and change your database.yml to match
On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:23 AM, craigtmackenzie
[email protected] [email protected]
On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:23 AM, craigtmackenzie wrote:
script/generate controller category
all of the scaffold code so i can have a play around in it??) in
1.14.3??? many thanks
Try:
script/generate scaffold Category Category
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oh yeah i’ve done that, but under 1.14.3
rails ToDo
cd ~/ToDo
script/generate model category
script/generate controller category
[writes scaffold code into category_controller.rb]
script/generate scaffold category
doesn’t work, it just produces that error i mentioned before… where as
the tutorial states it works under 1.12.1 so for my personal rail apps
that i’m gonna write in 1.14.3 how am i going to get past the invisible
scaffold to see the code underneath?