# FastRI always returns nil on OS X

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 31, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702 "2007-03-31T06:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/1 "2007-03-31T06:14:37Z")

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Hi all,

OS X (10.4.9)  
Ruby 1.8.6 (built from source)  
FastRI 0.3.0

I installed FastRI seemingly without issue, fired up fastri-server, but  
I always get back nil.

daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ ps -ax | grep fast  
2775 p1 S 0:05.53 ruby /usr/local/bin/fastri-server  
4013 p1 S+ 0:00.00 grep fast  
daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri Array#length  
nil  
daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri -v  
fri 0.3.0 (2007-01-29)

Other information of possible interest:

irb(main):001:0\> require ‘socket’  
=\> true  
irb(main):002:0\> Socket.gethostname  
=\> “daniel-bergers-computer.local”

daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ nslookup localhost  
Server: 192.168.0.1  
Address: 192.168.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:  
Name: localhost  
Address: 127.0.0.1

Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks,

Dan

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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/2 "2007-04-05T12:38:07Z")

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:13:59PM +0900, Daniel B. wrote:

> daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri Array#length  
> nil  
> daniel-bergers-computer:~ djberge$ fri -v  
> fri 0.3.0 (2007-01-29)

I couldn’t reproduce it on OSX 10.4.9 + Ruby 1.8.6 + FastRI 0.3.0 (that  
is,  
theoretically the very same setup).

However, I noticed that the stdlib rdoc documentation wasn’t being  
generated  
on ‘make install’, so I had to ‘make install-doc’ manually after  
building  
1.8.6. If you’re getting  
$ fastri-server -b  
Indexed:

- 0 methods
- 0 classes/modules  
‘make install-doc’ should help.

You can try qri (identical to fri but using the local index, thus  
without  
needing the DRb service, and a bit slower) to discard network/DRb  
issues, but  
that doesn’t seem to be the culprit.

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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/3 "2007-04-05T15:19:43Z")

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Mauricio F. wrote:

> > 4013 p1 S+ 0:00.00 grep fast  
> > 1.8.6. If you’re getting  
> > $ fastri-server -b  
> > Indexed:
> 
> - 0 methods
> - 0 classes/modules  
> ‘make install-doc’ should help.
> 
> You can try qri (identical to fri but using the local index, thus without  
> needing the DRb service, and a bit slower) to discard network/DRb issues, but  
> that doesn’t seem to be the culprit.

Running make install-doc + fastri-server -b did the trick.

Many thanks,

Dan

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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/4 "2007-09-25T23:04:48Z")

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On Apr 1, 7:54 pm, Bil K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> You’re a day early; Berger on a Mac?
> 
> 🙂

Heh, nope, I bought a quad Xeon Mac tower 2 weeks ago. No joke. 🙂

I posted this as a bug report on the FastRI project page, btw. I’ve  
used it on Linux, Solaris and Windows with no issue. Not sure what’s  
happening on OS X.

Dan

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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/5 "2007-09-25T23:02:37Z")

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Hi,

I have it installed on OS X, with ruby 1.8.5, and it seems to work  
for some things and not for others.  
It seems as if my rdoc database has not been consistently generated.  
Is that true for you as well?

Bob E.

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>
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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastri-always-returns-nil-on-os-x/90702/6 "2007-09-25T23:07:38Z")

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Daniel B. wrote on 31 Mar '07:

> Hi all,

Hi.

> OS X (10.4.9)
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here?

You’re a day early; Berger on a Mac?

🙂