[QA] Workshop today: pre-briefing

[Carol Sanders]

On 07/18/2013 09:01 AM, Chris McMahon wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:carol at carolsanders.org>> wrote:
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>     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
>>     <mailto: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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Thank you Chris. My appologies for missing this important step.

Carol
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