Railsters:
Suppose I have a shell account, without root permission, on a
Rails-enabled hosting site.
Now suppose the sysadmin didn’t include sqlite3, for example, and I
want to crow-bar it into my own site. (Yes, switching to MySQL, the
way the Lamp Gods intended, is next!)
Can I use gem install sqlite3 --install-dir lib ?
I tried that, and the system can’t find the gem. So I add the gem’s
raw path to environment.rb:
$:.unshift File.join(File.dirname(FILE),
‘…/lib/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.1.0.1/lib/’)
Now the system can find the sqlite3.rb, but not sqlite3_api.so. I toss
that into ~/bin, which is on the preexisting PATH, and it still
doesn’t work. At a guess, I am within one symlink of getting this, but
what is it?? It ain’t “ln -s ~/bin/sqlite3_api.so
~/bin/sqlite3.so”…
(BTW it’s _why’s sqlite3, from gem install sqlite3-ruby --source
code.whytheluckystiff.net , natch!)
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Phlip
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