# Webby, Gems and Paths **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 4, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089 "2008-02-04T22:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089/1 "2008-02-04T22:44:13Z")
I am running an Ubuntu box, and it seems that whenever I “gem install” something with an executable (eg. /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.7.2/bin/webby) - I have to make a link to it in /usr/local and set the +x flag before it works. With Webby, linking still doesn’t work because it tries to load libraries with relative paths: /usr/local/bin/webby:4:in `require’: no such file to load – /usr/local/lib/webby (LoadError) …so I have to cd to /var/lib/gems…etc. to run it. Is there something wrong with my gems setup? Also, once I had build my Webby site, I had to put “require ‘rubygems’” in tasks/setup.rb before anything would work. After that Webby seems to work very well, except for one more thing that I cannot resolve. When I try to create a new page: lesliev@lesliev-laptop:/media/Storage/linux/qbe$ rake create:page about –trace (in /media/Storage/linux/qbe) \*\* Invoke create:page (first\_time) \*\* Execute create:page rake aborted! undefined method `top_level_tasks' for # /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.7.2/lib/webby/webby_task.rb:94:in`define\_create\_tasks’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `call' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in`execute’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:387:in`execute’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:357:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:350:in`synchronize’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:350:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in`run’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in`run’ /usr/bin/rake:4 Any help? ---
**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089/2 "2008-02-04T23:20:47Z")
On the webby create:page problem I was having, I can get a page to be created if I change “top\_level\_tasks” to “collect\_tasks”: /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.7.2/lib/webby/webby\_task.rb: ``` desc "create a new #{name}" task name do |t| raise "Usage: rake #{t.name} path" unless ARGV.length == 2 #page = t.application.top_level_tasks.pop page = t.application.collect_tasks.pop name = ::Webby::File.basename(page) ext = ::Webby::File.extname(page) dir = ::Webby::File.dirname(page) ``` That works, but I do get a (superfluous?) error from Rake: Don’t know how to build task ‘about’ Leslie ---
**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089/3 "2008-02-04T23:24:53Z")
On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Leslie V. wrote: > /usr/local/lib/webby (LoadError) > > …so I have to cd to /var/lib/gems…etc. to run it. What version of “gem” do you have installed? $ gem --version > Is there something wrong with my gems setup? Also, once I had build my > Webby site, > I had to put “require ‘rubygems’” in tasks/setup.rb before anything > would work. Okay, that was my bad. It will be fixed in the next release. > \*\* Execute create:page > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:350:in `invoke' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in`run’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in`run’ > /usr/bin/rake:4 What version of rake do you have installed? You should be running the latest (version 0.8.1 I believe). $ sudo gem update rake Blessings, TwP ---
**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089/4 "2008-02-05T09:48:06Z")
Ok, everything seems to be working right now, although I had to reinstall the Webby and BlueCloth gems (local install: “gem install webby bluecloth”). I added the RUBYOPT environment variable and all seems well. Webby also looks very nice so far, although I obviously will need to learn Latin 😉 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webby-gems-and-paths/128089/5 "2008-02-05T09:30:42Z")
On Feb 5, 2008 12:23 AM, Tim P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > paths: > > > > /usr/local/bin/webby:4:in `require’: no such file to load – > > /usr/local/lib/webby (LoadError) > > > > …so I have to cd to /var/lib/gems…etc. to run it. > > What version of “gem” do you have installed? > > $ gem --version 0.9, I have just updated to 1.01, so perhaps that will work better. > > Is there something wrong with my gems setup? Also, once I had build my > > Webby site, > > I had to put “require ‘rubygems’” in tasks/setup.rb before anything > > would work. > > Okay, that was my bad. It will be fixed in the next release. Maybe not. The rubygems website says I should set my RUBYOPT environment variable, so that would sort this problem out. > > undefined method `top_level_tasks' for # /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `each’ > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb:1924:in `run’ > > /usr/bin/rake:4 > > What version of rake do you have installed? You should be running the > latest (version 0.8.1 I believe). Ah, I have 0.7.1. Updating now… Thanks for all your help! Leslie