Riding Rails: Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!

Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!

Posted by David March 28, 2006 @ 06:02 AM

The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a little more joyful.

But of course we also have an impressive line of blockbuster features that will make you an even happier programmer. Especially if you’re into Ajax, web services, and strong domain models — and who isn’t these funky days?

The star of our one-one show is RJS: JavaScript written in Ruby. It’s the perfect antidote for your JavaScript blues. The way to get all Ajaxified without leaving the comfort of your beloved Ruby. It’s the brainchild of JavaScript and Ruby mastermind Sam Stephenson and an ode to the dynamic nature of Ruby.

Here goes a few sample rjs calls:

  # First buy appears the cart, subsequent buys highlight it
  page[:cart].visual_effect(@cart.size == 1 ? :appear : :highlight)

  # Replace the cart with a refresh rendering of the cart partial
  page[:cart].replace_html :partial => "cart" 

  # Highlight all the DOM elements of class "product" 
  page.select(".product").each do |element|
    element.visual_effect :highlight
  end

  # Call the custom JavaScript class/method AddressBook.cancel()
  page.address_book.cancel

  # 4 seconds after rendering, set the font-style of all company
  # spans inside tds to normal
  page.delay(4) do
    page.select("td span.company").each do |column| 
      column.set_style :fontStyle => "normal" 
    end
  end

And that’s just a tiny taste of what RJS is capable of. It takes the Ajax on Rails experience far above and beyond the great support we already had. Bringing us even closer to the goal of “as easy as not to”. Read more about RJS in the docs or in Cody Fauser’s tutorial about element and collection proxies and his introduction to RJS (it shouldn’t surprise you that Cody is writing about book about RJS for O’Reilly).

But its not just the view we’re giving some tender love, oh no. Active Record has been blessed with bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models, to_xml, calculations, and database adapters for Sybase and OpenBase. It’s a huge upgrade and made possible through the fantastic work of Rick Olson (who was recently accepted into Rails Core, not a minute too soon!) and Anna Chan. Let’s dig into three of the top features:

Bottomless eager loading gives you the power of pulling back a multi-level object graph in a single JOIN-powered SQL query. Example:

  # Single database query:
  companies = Company.find(:all, :include => { 
    :groups => { :members=> { :favorites } } })

  # No database query caused:
  companies[0].groups[0].members[0].favorites[0].name

You can mix’n’match too. Using both multi-level fetches and first-level ones in the same call:

  # Just 1 database query for all of this:
  authors = Author.find(:all, :include => [ 
    { :posts => :comments }, :categorizations ])
  authors[0].posts[0].comments[0].body # => "Rock on Rails!" 
  authors[0].categorizations[0].name   # => "Less software"

Polymorphic associations and join models give you access to much richer domains where many-to-many relationships are exposed as real models. Say Authorship between Book and Author:

  class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :authorships
    has_many :books, :through => :authorships
  end

  class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :authorships
    has_many :authors, :through => :authorships
  end

  class Authorship < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :author
    belongs_to :book
  end

...or addresses that can belong to both people and companies:

  class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true
  end

  class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_one :address, :as => :addressable
  end

  class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_one :address, :as => :addressable
  end

Now let’s have a look at the new respond_to feature of Action Controller that makes it much easier to launch your application with both Ajax, non-Ajax, and API access through the same actions. By inspecting the Accept header, we can do clever stuff like:

  class WeblogController < ActionController::Base
    def create
      @post = Post.create(params[:post])

      respond_to do |type|
        type.js   { render }  # renders create.rjs
        type.html { redirect_to :action => "index" }
        type.xml  do
          headers["Location"] = post_url(:id => @post)
          render(:nothing, :status => "201 Created")
        end
      end
    end
  end

The recently launched API for Basecamp uses this approach to stay DRY and keep Jamis happy. So happy that he wrote a great guide on how to use respond_to

Speaking of Jamis, he also added the third layer of testing to Rails: Integration tests. They allow you to faithfully simulate users accessing multiple controllers and even gives you the power to simulate multiple concurrent users. It can really give you a whole new level of confidence in your application. The 37signals team used it heavily in Campfire from where it was later extracted into Rails. See Jamis’ great guide to integration testing for more.

These highlighted features are just the tip of the iceberg. Scott Raymond has done a great job trying to keep a tab on all the changes, see his What new in Rails 1.1 for a more complete, if brief, walk-through of all the goodies. And as always, the changelogs has the complete step-by-step story for those of you who desire to know it all.

And as mentioned before, Chad Fowler’s excellent Rails Recipes has in-depth howtos on a lot of the new features. If you desire some packaged documentation, this is the book to pick up.

Upgrading from 1.0

So with such a massive update, upgrading is going to be hell, right? Wrong! We’ve gone to painstaking lengths to ensure that upgrading from 1.0 will be as easy as pie. Here goes the steps:

Update to Rails 1.1:
gem install rails --include-dependencies
Update JavaScripts for RJS:
rake rails:update

That’s pretty much it! If you’re seeing any nastiness after upgrading, it’s most likely due to a plugin that’s incompatible with 1.1. See if the author hasn’t updated it and otherwise force him to do so.

If you’re on Ruby 1.8.2 with Windows, though, you’ll want to upgrade to the 1.8.4 (or the script/console will fail). And even if you’re on another platform, it’s a good idea to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4. We still support 1.8.2, but might not in the next major release. So may as well get the upgrading with over with now.

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Mitchell Hashimoto on 28 Mar 06:13:

Congrats! First reply!

I’ll be updating now…
Kent Sibilev on 28 Mar 06:18:

Very nice job, guys!!!

Congratulations.
RWA on 28 Mar 06:20:

Great work!!!

I’ll be launching a ecommerce site on rails this week.

Really looking forward to a small rails 1.1.1 bugfix-only release that takes care of a few defects found on these:
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/report/14
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/report/19
I thought rails was ‘all hype’ until I tried it out for myself—well deserving of all the news and attention!
shanlalit on 28 Mar 06:21:

Congratulations!

I love the RJS Template system and the new integration testing is awesome.

Jamis’ articles on Integration Testing was one of the coolest thing I had come to know about Rails 1.1.

Great going congratulations once again!
Mitchell Hashimoto on 28 Mar 06:22:

You guys should update the main page to say 1.1 on the arrow instead of 1.0 ;)
Sean on 28 Mar 06:23:

Looks good guys.

In other news from today, it looks like JRuby is almost at the point to having Ruby on Rails working.

http://jruby.sourceforge.net/

It looks like we might actually have a fast implementation of Ruby sometime soon!
David Heinemeier Hansson on 28 Mar 06:28:

RWA: None of these tickets were critical for 1.1, so don’t hold your breath for a 1.1.1.
Greg on 28 Mar 06:33:

@Sean

It appears as though JRuby is slower than Ruby itself.

See the article below for more information.

http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/03/jruby-progress-updates-jruby-on-rails.html

I only dream about a Ruby interpreter/VM that can execute Ruby at speeds that PHP and Perl can achieve (which really isn’t “that” fast but is an order of magnitude faster than Ruby).
Vincent on 28 Mar 06:48:

Congrats
Aaron Kalin on 28 Mar 06:51:

Great to see 1.1 released, now I have to catch up with these new features on my current app. Big thanks to the Rails Community and Developers for making this one happen!
SeymourCakes on 28 Mar 06:52:

Awesome…
Vincent on 28 Mar 07:04:

Congrats
mikkel on 28 Mar 07:06:

heh…

just deployed an app running edge rails this evening at 9pm CET…just missed the boat by a couple of hours…
spanky the code machine on 28 Mar 07:26:

Hello World!
spanky the code machine on 28 Mar 07:27:

Hello World!
Robert on 28 Mar 07:30:

For some reason, when I do the gem install rails—inc… command, it just says successfully installed rails 1.0.0 ?
Joe on 28 Mar 07:38:

Good job!

As for the claim that Ruby is an order of magnitude slower than PHP or Perl, I’ve not experienced such. And this site seems to show it aint so:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=php

Also, a Ruby interpreter, in Java. Um, why?
Jens on 28 Mar 07:41:

Way to go. some nice features added imo
Evan on 28 Mar 07:42:

Just curious to know—how have Windows folks been working around the 1.8.4 issue so far? The one-click installer for 1.8.4 is still not complete. Is it complete enough?
alexr on 28 Mar 07:52:

Gah! “gem install rails” just picked up 1.1 and of course, typo wants rails 1.0. Just my luck tonight. :-)
Chris on 28 Mar 08:00:

Congratulations, guys…

The new stuff looks GREAT!
kitune on 28 Mar 08:07:

Congratulations!
Jevado on 28 Mar 08:09:

Gratz!

Updating now!
Brice Muangkhot on 28 Mar 08:31:

Congrat for the great Job well done for David and the Core team and community!

Viva Ruby on Rails!

Brice
Behe on 28 Mar 08:31:

So.. How do you upgrade an existing rails project to 1.1?
Behe on 28 Mar 08:31:

So.. How do you upgrade an existing rails project to 1.1?
Robert on 28 Mar 08:35:

And I was only wishing for the implementation of the Effect.Toggle function… :X

Rails ftw!
Greg Daniluk on 28 Mar 08:56:

Is seems that RoR crossed the chasm. Congratulations David and whole team! BTW is there any way to support Ruby/VM project? Ruby/VM on Rails might kill Java web development in just 3 years ;-)
Kevin Ballard on 28 Mar 09:08:

D’oh, I was hoping this wasn’t going to be released quite yet. Unless you’ve done some behind-the-scenes work since RC 1, Typo is screwed because Rails 1.1 seems to have certain issues with components (at least, the way we use them in Typo). Hopefully we’ll be able to figure it out without too much work…
Sebastien on 28 Mar 09:09:

What’s to come next ? 1.1.1, 1.2 or 2.0 ?

Any hints on what will be new ?
Robert Lidberg on 28 Mar 09:22:

Good job! Time to dive in to some text again.
Yagiz Erkan on 28 Mar 10:36:

Congrats!!! Didn’t that deserve a major release number? 2.0? ;)
vijay on 28 Mar 10:47:

Thanks folks for this release.Working on a project now will be able to update my sandbox only after that to test this release..
Senthil Nayagam on 28 Mar 10:50:

now I am a fulltime Ruby/Rails developer for my company

updating my rails for checking the latest features

got some problems while updating “metadata does not exist”, could be due to Windows XP

trying using “gem update” instead

i did not any info about this version being stable, so my current version will continue to be on rails 1.0 until my testing of 1.1 are over
Nathaniel Brown on 28 Mar 11:03:

Another major milestone, is the upgraded Rake, to 0.7 which includes namespace support.

If you see the new rake tasks, by typing “rake -T” in your Rails directory, you will notice:they:are:namespaced.
Chris on 28 Mar 11:05:

can anyone say screen casts??? i love watching those things, its the best way to get a feel for the new features… ScreenPodCast ??? OMG genius
Yagiz Erkan on 28 Mar 11:24:

So funny… All these people posting twice… including my first double-post. :) That’s the proof of an intuitive user interface :p.
Rizwan Reza on 28 Mar 12:06:

Happy Rails 1.1! Its been the best programming journey and will continue to be…

Thanks to the very least!

Rizwan
miguelsan on 28 Mar 12:06:

Am I the only one getting this message in my XP install?

$rake rails:update
rake aborted!
No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb)
C:/Program Files/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1635:in `load_rakefile’
(See full trace by running task with—trace)
matte on 28 Mar 12:11:

Good work and tnx for every new great feature!
masuidrive on 28 Mar 12:29:

I wanna translate this very helpful article to Japanese. Can I do it on my blog?
Chris on 28 Mar 12:48:

For us Typo users, can’t we just run ‘rake freeze_edge REVISION=3303’ (3303 is the version for Rails 1.0) until Typo gets fixed?

Awesome features in 1.1. I almost fell out of my chair a few times reading this post. Gratz Rails team!
Dirceu Pereira Tiegs on 28 Mar 13:04:

Congratulations, Rails 1.1 is amazing!
Torben on 28 Mar 13:06:

to_xml – yes , this is nice
mike on 28 Mar 13:11:

At the end of the post, DHH mentions a problem with Ruby 1.8.2 on Windows. There is a workaround that fixes console that doesn’t involve upgrading to 1.8.4 (since some other tools have issue with it). You can replace your irb.bat with the one attached to this bug:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4362
Wilco on 28 Mar 13:30:

Cool new release! Will try it out with your nice Agile book!
Michael Klein on 28 Mar 13:48:

Well done – Congratulations!
Bruce on 28 Mar 14:20:

Am I the only one getting this message in my XP install?
$rake rails:update rake aborted!

No, I get the same error on Mac OS X.
Damien on 28 Mar 14:30:

Excellent work, everyone, a huge thank you to everyone involved.

I upgraded my InstantRails / WinXP Pro install and the rails update was fine but the RJS update fails: rake aborted! No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb) D:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1635:in `load_rakefile’
Mike on 28 Mar 14:31:

I did a gem update, and I get the following error:

gem update

“c:\Ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\Ruby\bin\gem” update Upgrading installed gems… Attempting remote upgrade of actionmailer Attempting remote installation of ‘actionmailer’ ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError) superclass mismatch for class OrderedHash

A couple things:

1. I walked away for 5 minutes after starting the update, and when I came back I had to accept dependency updates. Perhaps the long wait had something to do with it (seems silly but I possibly may have had it happen before).

2. I recently installed Facets, and it has an OrderedHash class. This seems the more likely suspect.

Has anyone run into this, or does anyone have an idea?
Sarah on 28 Mar 14:43:

Missing rakefile here too, trying to do the RJS update, on Mac OSX…
razzi on 28 Mar 14:48:

those having problems with rake rails:update

You should run this command in the directory of your rails application (i.e. the one with the app/components/config/db/... directories)
Bobby Santiago on 28 Mar 15:07:

Finally! Good work, guys.
Danny Cohen on 28 Mar 15:20:

Screencast ! Screencast! Screencast!

i have found the best way to show things off, and also learn them, is through one of your guys’s’s’s’ Amazoing® screencasts.
DGM on 28 Mar 15:24:

Evan,

instead of the one-click installer for windows, use InstantRails…it already has a 1.8.4 tree.

Curt is working on a new method to build the one-click installer, which is why it is behind….

http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/
Brian on 28 Mar 15:37:

Brilliant! Works great for me, just upped and everything looks great. I have my Typo install already frozen to 1.0 anyway so no problems there.
Seth on 28 Mar 15:40:

I think the RJS update:

rake rails:update

is on a per application basis. Go to your app folder and run the script. It will update the application’s javascript files.
Patrick on 28 Mar 15:46:

Anyone else get this error?

patrick$ gem install rails—include-dependencies

Attempting local installation of ‘rails’

Local gem file not found: rails*.gem

Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’

Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied – /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rake-0.7.0.gem
Garth Oatley on 28 Mar 15:50:

Upgraded to 1.1. The login_engine doesn’t seem to allow webbrick to start so I presume login_engine isn’t compatible with 1.1. Gave me the excuse I needed to use acts_as_authenticated. Good job folks. Rails is starting to feel mature.
Marek on 28 Mar 15:51:

Omg used to hate javascript! Will RJS be my salvation? So say we all.
Chris on 28 Mar 16:02:

getting this when I gem install on Suse10:

Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `rbuf_fill’: execution expired (Timeout::Error) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `timeout’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:196:in `rbuf_fill’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:160:in `readuntil’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:171:in `readline’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1554:in `read_status_line’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1538:in `read_new’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:833:in `request’ ... 17 levels… from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:94:in `process_args’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:67:in `run’ from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:13:in `run’ from /usr/bin/gem:17
Ward Harold on 28 Mar 16:25:

Very nice. I’ll have to flip a coin to see if I upgrade my production Ruby install to 1.8.4 before or after I move up to 1.1 or vice versa. While I’m doing that could someone tell me whatever happened to the “gauges” that DHH alluded to in one of his talks? My day job is system management software so I’ve waiting to see what the core team brings forth on that front.
Bill on 28 Mar 16:30:

very nice
KM on 28 Mar 16:48:

“Active Record has been blessed with bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models”

Whew… Is it just me, or is it getting steamy in here?

:)
KM on 28 Mar 16:48:

“Active Record has been blessed with bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models”

Whew… Is it just me, or is it getting steamy in here?

:)
Jon Leighton on 28 Mar 16:55:

This looks pretty damn awesome. Please update api.rubyonrails.org now :)
David Heinemeier Hansson on 28 Mar 17:15:

Jon, the API has been updated.
Evan on 28 Mar 17:36:

DGM: Awesome, thanks much.
Kdevi on 28 Mar 19:20:

Congratulations…

The new stuff looks GREAT!! Keep it up…
Alex Griffioen on 28 Mar 19:44:

Congrats! Thanks for your amazing efforts, Rails Core and contributors!
Jon Leighton on 28 Mar 20:01:

David, I just realised: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ has the 1.0 docs whereas http://api.rubyonrails.com/ has the 1.1 docs. I was looking at the .org and thinking they weren’t up to date.

Which brings me to another issue… it’d be great if Rails just had one address, either .com or .org, and the other just redirected to the preferred one. Sometimes when I’m searching I get the same results from both URLs—it’s probably better from an SEO (and non-confusion) perspective to just stick to one URL.
JcSO on 28 Mar 21:55:

Kool, Congrats. What is about backward compatibility?
JcSO on 28 Mar 21:57:

Kool, Congrats. What is about backward compatibility?
RyanA on 28 Mar 22:07:

Nice! I’ll be a-updating right this minue.

I’m on my RoR project #2 and last project we updated to 1.0 quater way through development. This is awesome!

Good work guys!
ikarys on 28 Mar 22:09:

I’m a bit …. confused. I find this framework sexy.

Is that wrong? Am I dirty?
ikarys on 28 Mar 22:09:

I’m a bit …. confused. I find this framework sexy.

Is that wrong? Am I dirty?
Ari on 28 Mar 23:12:

Wow, nice job. been waiting for this for a while!
Ari on 28 Mar 23:13:

Wow, nice job. been waiting for this for a while!
Atif Khan on 28 Mar 23:16:

Congrats guys. Nice work. Keep it up. Are there any performance improvements with 1.1 release?
auser on 28 Mar 23:17:

Wow, nice job. been waiting for this for a while!
Keith Mancuso on 29 Mar 03:37:

anyone else getting this when they try to start the server after the upgrade on mac os x??

homebase:_{/sites/depoting keith$ ruby script/server
=> Booting lighttpd (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options)
Undefined config variable: var.CWD
2006-03-28 22:33:32: (configfile.c.800) source: config/lighttpd.conf line: 8 pos: 43 parser failed somehow near here: +
Exiting
homebase:}/sites/depoting keith$

whats going on?? all i did was do the gem install then built rails then tried to start the server…nada..
David Heinemeier Hansson on 29 Mar 03:59:

You’re running lighttpd and you need to upgrade to the latest version (1.4.11).
George W. Kyniston on 29 Mar 05:08:

absolutely the finest piece of technology I have seen in 10+ years of using Microsuck technology (c#).
Jackie on 29 Mar 07:44:

Patrick, I’ve had a similar error msg to you, however, mine related to ActiveRecord:

gem install rails—include dependencies
Attempting local installation of ‘rails’
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied – /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/activesupport-1.3.0.gem

Although I have no idea why it’s happening and have no idea how to make it work. Does anyone have any ideas how to help?
Jackie on 29 Mar 07:45:

Not ActiveRecord, but you get the idea…
aiwen on 29 Mar 09:04:

that’s all right.
De Web Times on 29 Mar 09:21:

very nice
pflores.goflores.com on 29 Mar 11:59:

Hi, I am still getting any ideas?

Thanks.. C:\rails\appdir>rake rails:update—trace (in C:/rails/commit) rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘rails:update’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1287:in `[]’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:300:in `[]’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1719:in `run’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1719:in `run’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/bin/rake:7 c:/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25
Matthew Thompson on 29 Mar 12:10:

From all of the teasing previews of features coming from so many outlets, its so nice to finally be able to get my hands on everything! Congrats to you and entire community on another fantastic release.
Ryan on 29 Mar 12:23:

Jackie/Patrick, it looks like you don’t have permissions on the /usr/local folder.
If you’re using OS X, run
```
sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
```
That sudo bit will prompt you for your password, which, assuming you are an administrator, will allow to perform the update.
Jackie on 29 Mar 12:41:

Ryan, many thanks. I guess I must have just taken my brain off the hook in the excitement. Now that you’e mentioned it, it’s so bloody obvious :). Cheers.
DGM on 29 Mar 15:11:

Evan,

Even more news. The one click installer for ruby 1.8.4 is now on rubyforge. Also, we are working on updating intantrails to use rails 1.1.
philk on 29 Mar 17:03:

Unfortunatly its not working on Windows machines. You guys should really test it on Windows before releasing it.

rake rails:update is seriously broken, and rake 0.7 is installed.

Got to check it on a linux box later the day.
Seth on 29 Mar 17:51:

Everything worked fine on my Windows box.
jens on 29 Mar 19:00:

My first try failed, so I tried again, it failed again so I tried again, it failed so I tried a third time. This time round it worked. What worries me is that I got three different error messages…

jens-powerbook-g4-12:~ jens$ sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied – /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rake-0.7.0.gem

jens-powerbook-g4-12:~ jens$ sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies Password: Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError) wrong instance allocation

jens-powerbook-g4-12:~ jens$ sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError) can’t convert Fixnum into String

jens-powerbook-g4-12:~ jens$ sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Successfully installed rails-1.1.0 Successfully installed rake-0.7.0 Successfully installed activesupport-1.3.0 Successfully installed activerecord-1.14.0 Successfully installed actionpack-1.12.0 Successfully installed actionmailer-1.2.0 Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.1.0 Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.0… RDoc failure in lib/rake.rb at or around line 1243 column 10 Before reporting this, could you check that the file you’re documenting compiles cleanly—RDoc is not a full Ruby parser, and gets confused easily if fed invalid programs. The internal error was: ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError) can’t convert Fixnum into String

jens-powerbook-g4-12:~ jens$ sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Successfully installed rails-1.1.0

Soo finally it installed but it feels kinda shakey..
Evan on 29 Mar 20:12:

Thanks DGM, that’s awesome news. I’ll install it right away.
Martin on 29 Mar 22:07:

How to install a fresh RoR 1.1 final and Ruby 1.8.4 on Windows XP?
Michael on 29 Mar 23:01:

It seems the changelog files listed at http://api.rubyonrails.org have the wrong change date – 1.1.0 (March 27th, 2005) instead of 1.1.0 (March 27th, 2006).
DGM on 30 Mar 05:25:

Martin,

In another day or two, we will have a new release of InstantRails out which includes ruby 1.8.4 and rails 1.1
Jason Liebe on 30 Mar 12:14:

Me Happy.
Frank on 30 Mar 14:46:

Very impressive update indeed

Frank
anyupu@gmail.com on 31 Mar 05:49:

I got the error: Unknown key(s): through after:

C:\Documents and Settings\ayp>”c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe” “c:\ruby\bin\gem” install r ails—include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ‘rails’ Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’ Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Successfully installed rails-1.1.0 Successfully installed activesupport-1.3.0 Successfully installed activerecord-1.14.0 Successfully installed actionpack-1.12.0 Successfully installed actionmailer-1.2.0 Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.1.0 Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.3.0… Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.14.0… Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.12.0… Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.2.0… Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.1.0…

C:\Documents and Settings\ayp>rake rails:update rake aborted! No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb) c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1635:in `load_rakefile’ (See full trace by running task with—trace)
Karthik on 31 Mar 13:17:

Go Rails !!! Congrats !!!
HazMatt on 31 Mar 23:46:

I run rake rails:update from my rails application directory and still get the rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task rails:update error.

I’m on OSX Panther(10.3.9) and Ruby 1.8.4

any ideas?
WebHosting on 02 Apr 23:00:

Ruby is excellent. The new version will bring web 2 closer to the ordinary web developer.
EricInOz on 06 Apr 00:26:

I’m getting this error after upgrading with ruby-1.8.4 one touch installer and following the gem install directions above. Any clues please?

=> Booting WEBrick… D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active_support/infl ector.rb:125:in `underscore’: stack level too deep (SystemStackError) from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:29:in `underscore’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:84:in `const_missing’ from ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib/dependencies_exten sions.rb:28:in `require_or_load’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:30:in `depend_on’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:74:in `require_dependency’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:87:in `const_missing’ from ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/engines/lib/dependencies_exten sions.rb:28:in `require_or_load’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:30:in `depend_on’ ... 670 levels… from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/commands/serve r.rb:30 from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21: in `require’ from D:/ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.0/lib/active _support/dependencies.rb:136:in `require’ from script/server:5
Croaky on 07 Apr 03:37:

HazMatt,

I’m on OS X Panther, Ruby 1.8.4 myself… Same thing happened to me but everything is cool now.

Run sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies (emphasis on sudo). I think the rake aborted when we tried to feed it the rails:update task because we didn’t in fact have Rails 1.1 installed yet.

By extension, perhaps the gem does not install with using sudo?

Good luck!
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