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Re: Shoes require
by Giles Bowkett
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And a footnote copied from a post Garret made on the Shoes list:
> If anyone is interested in getting ferret and acts_as_ferret from
> within shoes for some awesome database indexing goodness you simply
> need to extract the relevant lib files to the shoes ruby/lib folder
> and then:
> RAILS_ROOT = '.'
> RAILS_ENV = 'development'
> require 'acts_as_ferret'
>
> RAILS_ROOT and RAILS_ENV need to be set to fool acts_as_ferret into
> working correctly because it expects to be used from within rails.
there's a Ferret in my Shoes!
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On 1/1/08, Garret Buell <terragb@...> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 11:35 AM, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...> wrote:
> > Shoes incorporates its own Ruby interpreter so you need to either give
> > it an explicit path to ActiveRecord's location or bundle ARec into a
> > nearby directory in Shoes-land.
>
> This is basically correct. As Shoes does indeed incorporate its own
> Ruby interpreter it also has its own collection of relevant gems
> already installed. Though there is no mechanism (yet) to install gems
> automatically you can manually install them into the nearby directory
> in Shoes-land which is ruby/lib.
> Basically what I did to get ActiveRecord working was I downloaded
> ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport from rubyforge.org. I'm using
> ActiveRecord 1.15.6 and ActiveSupport 1.4.4. These are the newest
> versions before the move to Rails 2.0. You could probably do it with
> the 2.0 versions but I'm sticking back. Then I copied the lib
> directories to the ruby/lib directory under shoes. If you do this
> you'll notice they fit right in and don't look unusual at all. After
> they are copied you can do a simple require 'active_record' and use it
> as normal from within shoes. The key thing to note here is that
> ActiveRecord depends on ActiveSupport. You can use this trick to
> install any gems under shoes as long as you also install their
> required dependencies.
>
> I'm guessing you'll also want sqlite working and there seems to be a
> problem with sqlite under windows so the solution right now is to
> download the newest sqlite3.dll from
> http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_5_4.zip and put it in the same
> directory as the shoes.exe
>
> -Garret Buell
>
>
> If anyone is interested in getting ferret and acts_as_ferret from
> within shoes for some awesome database indexing goodness you simply
> need to extract the relevant lib files to the shoes ruby/lib folder
> and then:
> RAILS_ROOT = '.'
> RAILS_ENV = 'development'
> require 'acts_as_ferret'
>
> RAILS_ROOT and RAILS_ENV need to be set to fool acts_as_ferret into
> working correctly because it expects to be used from within rails.
there's a Ferret in my Shoes!
--
Giles Bowkett
Podcast: http://hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com
Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org
Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com
On 1/1/08, Garret Buell <terragb@...> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 11:35 AM, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...> wrote:
> > Shoes incorporates its own Ruby interpreter so you need to either give
> > it an explicit path to ActiveRecord's location or bundle ARec into a
> > nearby directory in Shoes-land.
>
> This is basically correct. As Shoes does indeed incorporate its own
> Ruby interpreter it also has its own collection of relevant gems
> already installed. Though there is no mechanism (yet) to install gems
> automatically you can manually install them into the nearby directory
> in Shoes-land which is ruby/lib.
> Basically what I did to get ActiveRecord working was I downloaded
> ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport from rubyforge.org. I'm using
> ActiveRecord 1.15.6 and ActiveSupport 1.4.4. These are the newest
> versions before the move to Rails 2.0. You could probably do it with
> the 2.0 versions but I'm sticking back. Then I copied the lib
> directories to the ruby/lib directory under shoes. If you do this
> you'll notice they fit right in and don't look unusual at all. After
> they are copied you can do a simple require 'active_record' and use it
> as normal from within shoes. The key thing to note here is that
> ActiveRecord depends on ActiveSupport. You can use this trick to
> install any gems under shoes as long as you also install their
> required dependencies.
>
> I'm guessing you'll also want sqlite working and there seems to be a
> problem with sqlite under windows so the solution right now is to
> download the newest sqlite3.dll from
> http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_5_4.zip and put it in the same
> directory as the shoes.exe
>
> -Garret Buell
>
>
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