Trouble installing, starting gitdocs

[quite]

I've had to reinstall the system where I was previously successfully running gitdocs (pre3, 4 or so).

First try is to do: gem install gitdocs --pre This results in a gitdocs executable which, when I do: gitdocs start, I get: "Daemonized process couldn't be started, Failed to start gitdocs". And I don't know how to get further debug information. No --debug?

Another attempt is cloning this very repository, and trying to "rake", but then I run into a lot of problems like "... Unable to activate coveralls-0.7.2, because thor-0.14.6 conflicts with thor (= 0.18.1)". And so on. One might think that the above try would have installed all neccessary gems of the right version, but perhaps that is the actual problem above as well!

I would be happy to start running gitdocs again! : )

[nesquena]

As outlined here: https://github.com/nesquena/gitdocs#starting-gitdocs start gitdocs in debug mode and let us know what the logs say.

[acant]

This results in a gitdocs executable which, when I do: gitdocs start, I get: "Daemonized process couldn't be started, Failed to start gitdocs". And I don't know how to get further debug information. No --debug?

@quite the failure to daemonize message can mean that another copy of gitdocs is already running. You can check this by running:

gitdocs stop
ps ax | grep gitdocs

If the output is empty, then you should be able to start If it is not empty then kill the stray gitdocs processes first, and then try to start again.

If this still does not work then you can try starting in debug mode with:

gitdocs start -D

(as described in the docs that @nesquena mentioned) and let us know what messages are displayed.

Another attempt is cloning this very repository, and trying to "rake", but then I run into a lot of problems

You do need to use bundler to run things from the repository. This is not documented in the README, but I really should add a section about it. If you want to clone and then see the possible rake tasks you would do the following:

gem install bundler
git clone git@github.com:nesquena/gitdocs.git
cd gitdocs
bundler install # which should install all the dependencies
bundle exec rake -T # which should show the available rake tasks

At this point you would be able to run the from the repository with:

bundler exec gitdocs start

(again being careful that you are not already running another copy of gitdocs already)

Sorry for the late reply, but I hope that this information is help. And I look forward to hearing about any progress you make.

[quite]

Sorry, I've not had the time to try and set up gitdocs again after running into this problem. Probably what you both write will help me solve this, once I do get the time (apparantly my need for gitdocs isn't very big currently :) So I think it's safe to close this.

[acant]

Cool. I will close it for now. But I'll follow up on the bundler docs and see about adding more details to the failure to start message.