Using Ruby And Rails On Torch

Sean — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:35:00 +0200

So….... I have noticed a few people have been searching the internet for ‘rails on torch’. So, I thought I would answer this question for them.

The Easy Answer:

It is already installed! Just start developing following any of the many, many tutorials out there. Or alternately you can just download, configure and run one of the many pre-existing projects in existance

The Slightly Less Easy Answer

Assuming you are doing development, you will soon likely run into a problem. Two of them actually.

The current version of Rails is 1.0.0, meaning you are missing out on the latest and greatest features.
You aren’t able to install, let alone update, gems. (And do we REALLY want to bother the admins every time we want to try a new, or update an old, gem?)

But there are a few options here:

Download gems and use ‘gem unpack’ to unroll them into your application. Note, this is really tedious and lacks most of the advantages of using gems in the first place.
Install your own instance of rubygems. The process is documented here. I use this on the server where I do most of my development.
Even easier, just set up your environment to store the gems in your home directory. The process, which involves simply editing a file called .gemrc in your user directory is fairly well documented here. For those who just want a quick fix, you can use the below.

# simple .gemrc for usage on torch
gemhome: /users/cs/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/gems
gempath:
- /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

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Using Ruby And Rails On Torch