testing on windows plateform

[akhlaaqbadulla]

hello i have been able to use it on my debian distro but i have been trying to install on my windows pc and i have been strugling to do so. am a newbie to ruby and i am still trying to find my around. Can you please tell me what i can do to make it work on windows.

[jasonknight]

Yeah, we gave up trying to get rails to play well on windows. It was just a pain. It's probably possible for you to get salor-bin running on windows and just connect to a server box.

[akhlaaqbadulla]

thanks but i got it to work on windows. actually the was an issues with my ruby configuration. now i fixed it.. it works now i need to know how and will it break?.

[akhlaaqbadulla]

# a short lived happiness i got this error... `Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.7.3/ext/json/ext/generator C:/Ruby24-x64/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20180302-220-16jb76i.rb extconf.rb creating Makefile

current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.7.3/ext/json/ext/generator make "DESTDIR=" clean

current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.7.3/ext/json/ext/generator make "DESTDIR=" generating generator-x64-mingw32.def compiling generator.c In file included from generator.c:1:0: ../fbuffer/fbuffer.h: In function 'fbuffer_to_s': ../fbuffer/fbuffer.h:158:47: error: macro "rb_str_new" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given VALUE result = rb_str_new(FBUFFER_PAIR(fb)); ^ ../fbuffer/fbuffer.h:158:20: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] VALUE result = rb_str_new(FBUFFER_PAIR(fb)); ^~~~~~ In file included from generator.c:2:0: generator.c: In function 'cState_aref': generator.h:96:27: warning: variable 'state' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] JSON_Generator_State state; \ ^ generator.h:96:27: note: in definition of macro 'GET_STATE' JSON_Generator_State state; \ ^~~~~ generator.c: In function 'generate_json': generator.c:800:25: error: 'rb_cFixnum' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'mFixnum'? } else if (klass == rb_cFixnum) { ^~~~~~ mFixnum generator.c:800:25: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in generator.c:802:25: error: 'rb_cBignum' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'rb_cFixnum'? } else if (klass == rb_cBignum) { ^~~~~~ rb_cFixnum generator.c: In function 'isArrayOrObject': generator.c:867:22: warning: suggest parentheses around '&&' within '||' [-Wparentheses] return p == '[' && q == ']' || p == '{' && q == '}';

make: *** [Makefile:242: generator.o] Error 1

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in
C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.7.3 for inspection.
Results logged to
C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.4.0/json-1.7.3/gem_make.out

An error occurred while installing json (1.7.3), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install json -v '1.7.3'` succeeds before bundling.

In Gemfile:
  coffee-rails was resolved to 3.2.2, which depends on
    railties was resolved to 3.2.6, which depends on
      rdoc was resolved to 3.12.2, which depends on
        json`

[jasonknight]

Yeah, welcome to Ruby :)

I've considered porting the application to a better language, like PHP which is much easier to deploy. I didn't realize anyone actually used the software...

[akhlaaqbadulla]

actually its a really nice software i used it on my debian system. well if you need help porting to php i can help as i will start learning php.

[jasonknight]

Thank you. Most of the credit goes to my partner in crime, mifranzl, he did the rewrite and retest of the latest salor (well, old now but latest way back). And he designed the deb packaging and distribution etc. Good luck!