11.11.07

Merb on Windows: environment variables required.

Posted in Programming, Ruby, merb at 1:56 pm by Robert Horvick

[Update: Merb is now working on Windows]  

After getting merb installed I created a project using “merb myapp” - this worked fine.  Next I tried just running “merb” to see where I was at.

Merb started with these options:---:merb_root: C:/InstantRails/projects/merb_1/myapp 

:reloader_time: 0.5
:cache_templates: false
:use_mutex: true
:session_id_cookie_only: true
:session_secret_key: C:/INSTANTRAILS/PROJECTS/MERB_1/MYAPP5259
:host: 0.0.0.0 

:query_string_whitelist: []
:reloader: true
:exception_details: true
:environment: development
:port: “4000″
Define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again

The error “Define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again” was not expected but I’m game.

I looked around for a place to define environment variables (since “:environment: development” seemed to hint that there would be one).

So I tried the obvious directory listing:

C:\InstantRails\projects\merb_1\myapp>dir development.rb /s 

 Volume in drive C has no label. 

 Volume Serial Number is 2256-DBBA 

Directory of C:\InstantRails\projects\merb_1\myapp\config\environments 

11/11/2007  12:48 AM                44 development.rb 

               1 File(s)             44 bytes 

I opened it and changed it’s contents to:

puts "Loaded DEVELOPMENT Environment..." 

ENV['INLINEDIR'] = “C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp”

But the error persisted.  So I just set INLINEDIR in the environment.

Further … but now a new error:

C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:397:in ``': No such file or directory - cl -nologo -LD -Werror  -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -I C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I C:/InstantRails/ruby/include -o "C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/.ruby_inline/Inline_ParseTree_fa12.so" "C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/.ruby_inline/Inline_ParseTree_fa12.c"  -link /LIBPATH:"C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"msvcrt-ruby18.lib" /INCREMENTAL:no /EXPORT:Init_Inline_ParseTree_fa12 (Errno::ENOENT) 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:397:in `build' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:679:in `inline' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ParseTree-2.0.2/lib/parse_tree.rb:243 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby2ruby-1.1.7/lib/ruby2ruby.rb:4 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' 

  ... 13 levels... 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-0.4.1/lib/merb/server.rb:500:in `run' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-0.4.1/bin/merb:6 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/merb:16:in `load' 

 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/merb:16

Is it just me or does that look like it’s trying to run a C compiler?

Investigating now…

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