Can't quite get Rails working on Mac, help please :)

Rails
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I’ve followed the install the install guide on

and it seemed to work. And I’ve been following the Instant Gratifiction
guide in Chapter four in Agile Web D. with Rails book. I’m in
terminal and I type -

cd work (everything works fine) then
rails demo (everything seems to work) then
cd demo (all goes well) then
ls -p (nothing wrong) then
ruby script server - and i get this error -

ruby: Is a directory - script (Errno::EISDIR)
william-mors-powerbook-g4-15:~/work/demo cooper$ ruby script/server
=> Booting lighttpd (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach (requires absolute paths in
config/lighttpd.conf)
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options)
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1022) execve failed for:
public/dispatch.fcgi No such file or directory
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1048) the fastcgi-backend
public/dispatch.fcgi failed to start:
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1052) child exited with status 2
public/dispatch.fcgi
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) if you try do run PHP as
FastCGI backend make sure you use the FastCGI enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing ‘php -v’ and it
should display ‘(cgi-fcgi)’ in the output, NOT (cgi) NOR (cli)
For more information check
http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-program
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1060) If this is PHP on Gentoo add
fastcgi to the USE flags
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (mod_fastcgi.c.1356) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2006-03-24 21:50:10: (server.c.834) Configuration of plugins failed.
Going down.

Does anyone have any insight? Thanks! :slight_smile:

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On 3/24/06, Cooper M. [email protected] wrote:

ruby script server - and i get this error -

Could this be due to a recent change in Lighttpd?

From Bug #487: Lighty 1.4.9 no likey relative bin-paths - Lighttpd - lighty labs …

in lighttpd 1.4.10 you will have CWD in your configfiles:

“bin-path” => CWD + “/public/dispatch.fcgi”

which will point to the current working dir. We had to change the
bin-path base dir to / for security reasons.

Adding the “CWD +” part fixed for me what looks like the same error.

–
Jack Baty
Fusionary Media - http://www.fusionary.com

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Not sure about the second issue, but your first problem is caused
because the command should be “ruby script/server” not “ruby script
server”.

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Steven S. wrote:

Not sure about the second issue, but your first problem is caused
because the command should be “ruby script/server” not “ruby script
server”.

Oops that was a typo, in my post, I did it right in terminal.

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lighttpd after version 1.4.9 requires the full path in the “bin-path”
part
of the lighttpd.conf file. So instead of:
“bin-path” => “public/dispatch.fcgi”,
You will need to do:
“bin-path” => “/Users/USERNAME/demo/public/dispatch.fcgi”,

-Steve
http://www.stevelongdo.com