Comments on: Getting sqlite3 to work on Tiger with Rails 2.1.0

By: Mark Dodwell

Mark Dodwell — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:50:26 +0000

I accidentally installed a version of sqlite *over* the top of my system’s one. I’m on OS X 10.4 and it has pretty much broken most of the applications (I think they all use CoreData which uses some of the sqlite libs). Does anybody have any ideas for how I can restore the original version without a complete reinstall of the OS?

I believe that the OS X 10.4 version comes with a patched version of sqlite 3.1.3. Perhaps I could obtain that from somewhere? I have hunted high and low on the Internet with no luck.

Any ideas welcome!!

By: joel

joel — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:03:11 +0000

Thanks alot, I kept looking for a binary install, but as always, its just easier to compile. DOH!!!

By: scott

scott — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:41:39 +0000

Hi Ian. I’m not sure what could still be the problem. I’ve never dealt with OS X Server.

Did you first uninstall the sqlite3-ruby gem via sudo gem uninstall sqlite3-ruby?

Then after doing the curl, and make, and sudo make, did you then reinstall the sqlite3-ruby gem by doing sudo gem install sqlite3?

What happens when you type ****sqlite3**** into your terminal?

By: Ian Piper

Ian Piper — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:48:40 +0000

Thanks for the notes on this. I have also been having real problems in this area. I installed the whole ruby-gem-rails toolset and don’t seem to be able to get sqlite3 going. I installed v3.5.9 of sqlite3-ruby but still get this kind of message when doing a migration:

morse:/Users/Shared/software/addressbook rubyrails$ rake db:migrate
(in /Users/Shared/software/addressbook)
rake aborted!
no such file to load — sqlite3/database

This is on a Mac OS X Server box btw. I think I may have to resort to MySQL.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:29:15 +0000

Thanks man. That was very helpful.