[QA] Workshop today: pre-briefing

[Carol Sanders]

It works.

Thanks!


Carol A. Sanders
Sr, Network QA Engineer, Mad Scientist, Student
"Escape the Boundaries of Your Mentality"


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>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>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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