Beyond The Type

[NickToye]

Has anyone worked on this tutorial?

http://www.beyondthetype.com/rails/2...-ruby-on-rails

because I got stuck at the first hurdle, if anyone can help me that would be great.

[alistair_b]

1) are you on windows or linux?

2) do you have rails and ruby installed and added to your path? <what does ri or ruby or irb produce on a console>
3) how do I do this? That depends on the question 1) and im not going to answer both at once.

[NickToye]

1) I am on windows
2) As for the console, I navigated to rails directory and then basecamp directory ran ruby script/console, and the screenshot attached is the result.

Hope this can help.

[Bob Carologees]

Did you do gem install xml-simple ?

[NickToye]

It wouldn't let me, do I install it withing the rails/basecamp directory?

[Luke Redpath]

It seems to be failing to load the basecamp library - is basecamp.rb in your lib dir?

[NickToye]

It is in there

But I had it as basecamp.rb.rb



Could that be the problem?

[Bob Carologees]

[vgarcia]

Could that be the problem?

yeah

[NickToye]

Ok, I did a gem install xml-simple and it said this:

local gem file not found
Attempting remote installation of xml-simple
Error: While executing gem ... (socket area)
getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname.

[NickToye]

Turns out it was Norton AV that was causing problems, so I disabled that and it worked.

[NickToye]

Now it is saying that sudo is not a recognised command

[Fenrir2]

Sudo is linux. Which script is causing the error?

[NickToye]

Well i'm running through the tutorial linked at the start of this thread.

Then when I run the script/console

I don't get what is expected in the tutorial.

[Luke Redpath]

This might not be that helpful, but if you could get hold of a Linux machine (or even better a Mac) to develop on you'll appreciate it. Developing Rails apps on Windows is horrible - its largely inferior console/cmd line doesn't help.

[Bob Carologees]

Luke is right, but getting a Nix box just to develop a rails app is a bit of a pain. Personally I think Windows can do the job, the worst thing is the lack of a quality, lightweight IDE like textmate for the mac

Try without the sudo i.e.
gem install xml-simple

If that doesn't work try:
ruby gem install xml-simple

[NickToye]

the gem install worked

But when I run the script/console it doesn't show what is in the tut.

I do agree about Mac's and its something that I am looking to do within the next month or so. Its not just for Ruby its for all web app, speed of processor and because they are just that cool!

[NickToye]

Ok, I started again, I created the basecamp application, and then installed the gem simple-xml from within the rails directory not the basecamp directory.

It seemed to install

I have attached a screenshot of what happens when I run the script/console.

[Bob Carologees]

Those are just warnings. I imagine things should still work fine.

[NickToye]

Yeah,

But this isn't showing:

session = Basecamp.new('beyondthetype.updatelog.com', 'username', 'password')
puts "projects: #{session.projects.length}"
projects: 1

[Bob Carologees]

I'm a noob myself but would imagine you are supposed to actually type that into the command line puts "projects: #{session.projects.length}" is saying output the number of items in the projects array, hence the next line should be automatic....i.e. it will display projects: 1 (or however many projects you have)

[NickToye]

nope, I don't think so