Newbie setup

Rails
1

I am new to all of this so bare with me. I just did a complete setup
on a OS X machine in my directory. Then I tried to access everything
from a different directory and couldn’t get any of it. In my directory
I have the newer version of rails, etc. In the other directory it only
shows the older version of ruby and no rails. My question: Is there a
way to access everything I did from any personal directory or do I
have to do the same installation again for each directory?

2

Hi,

2007/8/4, [email protected] [email protected]:

I just did a complete setup
on a OS X machine in my directory.

What do you mean by this? Did you set up RoR as gems? Did you create
a RoR application using something like “$ rails myapp”?

Lutz

3

Hi, if you followed the instructions, then you should have added the
directory that contains the executables to you path. For example, in
the
.profile, I have something like this
export
PATH=<the_name_of_the_directory_that_contains_ruby_executable>:$PATH

Good luck,

-Conrad

4

Hi, please follow one of the setups in Chapter 3 of AWDwRv2 for Mac OS
X.
Here’s one that I have used in the past:

Good luck,

-Conrad

5

Already did all this. My question is am I only able to run all of this
from the directory I installed it all in? Because I can’t access it
anywhere else.

6

Yes, I installed everything as indicated at

but I can only access everything from one directory only. Is it
suppose to work this way?

7

As someone stated previously the problem is probably that you don’t
have the executable’s for rails and ruby in your path BEFORE the
default versions.

Here is line from my .bash_profile (my ruby and rails are in /usr/
local/bin-- the others are for mysql an lighttpd):

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:
$PATH"

You will need to type “. ~/.bash_profile” after you add this for this
session but for future sessions it should be run automatically.

8

Finally got it. Thanks so much. I am a pure beginner and I didn’t
realize that I had to make the PATH change in each user directory.

9

yes I did this exactly as stated in the instructions. It all works
fine but am I only suppose to be able to access rails and this updated
ruby in my directory only? Because when I go to any other directory I
cannot access anything but the Ruby version (older) that came with OS
X 10.4

10

Quoting “[email protected]” [email protected], who spaketh thusly:

Finally got it. Thanks so much. I am a pure beginner and I didn’t
realize that I had to make the PATH change in each user directory.

You can also make the change to /etc/profile and it will be global to
all accounts across the machine.

– Mitch