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jywarren / mapknitter

Use Public Lab's MapKnitter to turn your aerial images into projected maps for print and web
http://mapknitter.org
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Update README #165

Closed anishshah101 closed 10 years ago

anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

Revised the installations steps for the app.

jywarren commented 10 years ago

Hi, Anish - so rake gems:install did not work? Also, why do you have to remove write permissions for the root folder?

anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

rake gems:install shows an error of missing gemfile. When users beside you have write permissions for the root folder it doesn't allow the server to start and displays the warning: /home/username is insecure 40775. It may not be group or world writable. Exiting Running chmod -R go-w mapknitter solves this.

jywarren commented 10 years ago

ah, these must be recent Rails/Ruby things. I know the Gemfile is a new rails convention -- what version of rails are you running?

The Readme should specify that those are specific to the appropriate Rails version only. Thanks for looking into this!

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rake gems:install shows an error of missing gemfile. When users beside you have write permissions for the root folder it doesn't allow the server to start and displays the warning: /home/username is insecure 40775. It may not be group or world writable. Exiting Running chmod -R go-w mapknitter solves this.

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anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

I am using Rails 2.3.15. When you run it with Rails 2.3.11 it displays an error saying Rails 2.3.15 not found.

jywarren commented 10 years ago

Hmm, but I wasn't aware rails 2.3.x used a Gemfile to list gems. I thought that was a Rails 3.x convention. You're sure that's what you're using? Are you in RVM? Can you run rails -v?

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I am using Rails 2.3.15. When you run it with Rails 2.3.11 it displays an error saying Rails 2.3.15 not found.

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anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

railsv

anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

Actually rails 2.3.x doesn't use Gemfile to list gems. It is possible that other errors are happening here as pointed out in this old blog: http://sleeplesscoding.blogspot.in/2010/07/install-rails-apps-dependencies-where.html I think the installing the bundler will work best here: http://bundler.io/rails23.html

jywarren commented 10 years ago

Hmm, ok, i trust your investigation :-) but just be sure you're not displacing a set of instructions which does work for an older version. Note the versions you think your approach is valid for inline in the README steps. Thanks!

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, anishshah101 notifications@github.comwrote:

Actually rails 2.3.x doesn't use Gemfile to list gems. It is possible that other errors are happening here as pointed out in this old blog: http://sleeplesscoding.blogspot.in/2010/07/install-rails-apps-dependencies-where.html I think the installing the bundler will work best here: http://bundler.io/rails23.html

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anishshah101 commented 10 years ago

I have mentioned both Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.15 in the README. The rest of the steps are primitive even for Rails 2.3 as here you find the necessary gems using environment.rb and then install them manually using gem install 'gem name' -v 'version name' I think they should work properly even for older versions. Bundler is a simpler solution for this but it's support for versions older than 2.3 is not guaranteed so haven't put this alternative in the README.