Comments on: How to Install Merb: Use thor to get merb:edge

By: scott

scott — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:30:18 +0000

@Michael. I am almost positive this doesn’t work now. Merb is supposed to have its own stack now, but I haven’t found time to play with it yet.

Talk to the guys on #merb channel, but I think installing merb is now as easy as “sudo gem install merb”

By: Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:32:54 +0000

does this still work?

It seems this now (as of October 28 2008) will create a gems folder and install the gems there, not install them globally.

By: Chris V

Chris V — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:06:19 +0000

I was trying to do a local only install of the edge and this really helped. But, for a local only install, the merb_datamapper doesn’t work (and since I didn’t install the gems in the system it couldn’t find depenedencies).

The fix was simple.
cd ~/documents/code/merb/sources/dm-more/merb_datamapper
gem clobber_package
gem package
gem install –install-dir ~/documents/code/merb/gems -f pkg/merb_datamapper-0.9.8.gem

Hope this helps someone.

By: Clint Hill » Blog Archive » “windows” man walking

Clint Hill » Blog Archive » “windows” man walking — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:46:34 +0000

[...] We actually need to get Merb first. The rest of this post will politely be stolen from this post. There are a few hiccups along the way due to Cygwin and Windows that I will [...]

By: scott

scott — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:26:41 +0000

@Peter: thanks, i’ve updated the post with your change. (an earlier thor included the tasks I mentioned, but no longer does as far as I can tell.)

@Clint Hill: thanks Clint. good to know for any windows users using cygwin.

By: Clint Hill

Clint Hill — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:33:47 +0000

Thanks for the post.

Just wanted to note (maybe for others) that ruby2ruby and ParseTree bomb out in Cygwin. Their dependencies on each other really screw up the install call you have above.

They will install together or separately but not while in the list as shown above. Even when the order is switched to match dependency (ParseTree first then ruby2ruby).

I have them installed but fought this a little bit and wanted to mention it.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:02:06 +0000

Hi, nice post.

I think it is thor merb:edge:dm_more –install

Tks,

Peter.