[QA] Workshop today: pre-briefing

[Chris McMahon]

Hi Carol,

Yes, this is why we recommend using RVM as noted here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Meetings/2013-07-18#Ruby_on_Linux


The default Ruby on Ubuntu is fairly crippled.  If you have RVM, you might
need to do source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to use RVM properly


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Carol Sanders <carol at carolsanders.org>wrote:

>  On 07/18/2013 07:32 AM, Željko Filipin wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I just completed the Vagrant route alone on my laptop, running Ubuntu.
>
>
> Great. Can you let me know your Ubuntu version (Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit?) so I
> can add it to "tested on"[1]?
>
>  Željko
>  --
> 1:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-07-18#Setup_virtual_machine
>
>
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>  The install instructions to setup your environment do not work with
> Ubuntu 13.04.
> Below are the error messages I received when attempting to setup my
> environment on two different Ubuntu 13.04 installations.
> Is it necessary for me to make my Ruby installation unstable according to
> Debian in order to have the required test environment?
>
> :~/browsertests$ gem update --system
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     gem update --system is disabled on Debian, because it will overwrite
> the content of the rubygems Debian package, and might break your Debian
> system in subtle ways. The Debian-supported way to update rubygems is
> through apt-get, using Debian official repositories.
> If you really know what you are doing, you can still update rubygems by
> setting the REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM environment variable, but please
> remember that this is completely unsupported by Debian.
> carolsand at casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ gem install bundler
> Fetching: bundler-1.3.5.gem (100%)
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
>     Permission denied - /var/lib/gems
>
> carolsand at casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ sudo gem install bundler
> Fetching: bundler-1.3.5.gem (100%)
> Successfully installed bundler-1.3.5
> 1 gem installed
> Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.3.5...
> Installing RDoc documentation for bundler-1.3.5...
> carolsand at casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$ bundle install
> Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..........
> Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
> Installing rake (10.1.0)
> Installing builder (3.2.2)
> Installing ffi (1.9.0)
> Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native
> extension.
>
>         /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot
> load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
>     from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
>     from extconf.rb:4:in `<main>'
>
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /home/carolsand/.bundler/tmp/31864/gems/ffi-1.9.0 for inspection.
> Results logged to
> /home/carolsand/.bundler/tmp/31864/gems/ffi-1.9.0/ext/ffi_c/gem_make.out
>
> An error occurred while installing ffi (1.9.0), and Bundler cannot continue
> .
> Make sure that `gem install ffi -v '1.9.0'` succeeds before bundling.
> carolsand at casubuntu-lt:~/browsertests$
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Carol
>
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