This is my first time with Ruby. How do I work around the installation of
such a package for this software platform (redmine)? Do you have an
preferred online references regarding Ruby?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 22:09 -0700, Eric Cope wrote:
> > so far...
> > Redmine required:
> > rack 1.0.1 (latest 1.1.0, had to use gem install rack -v 1.0.1)
> > test_spec
> > camping
> > fcgi
> >
> > I can not seem to install fcgi. here is the output...
> >
> > ERROR:  Error installing fcgi:
> >     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install fcgi
> > checking for fcgiapp.h... no
> > checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no
> > *** extconf.rb failed ***
> > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> > necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> > details.  You may need configuration options.
> >
> > Provided configuration options:
> >     --with-opt-dir
> >     --without-opt-dir
> >     --with-opt-include
> >     --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
> >     --with-opt-lib
> >     --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
> >     --with-make-prog
> >     --without-make-prog
> >     --srcdir=.
> >     --curdir
> >     --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby
> >     --with-fcgi-dir
> >     --without-fcgi-dir
> >     --with-fcgi-include
> >     --without-fcgi-include=${fcgi-dir}/include
> >     --with-fcgi-lib
> >     --without-fcgi-lib=${fcgi-dir}/lib
> >
> >
> > Gem files will remain installed
> > in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.8 for inspection.
> > Results logged
> > to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.8/ext/fcgi/gem_make.out
> ----
> fcgid is probably the worst way imaginable to actually serve ruby pages.
>
> use mongrel or passenger (I definitely recommend passenger). To get
> passenger installed, you would have to install httpd-devel package.
> Mongrel doesn't need that but you would struggle with getting the older
> version of httpd on CentOS to proxy the connections to the mongrel
> ports. But for development, you could probably just use webrick...
>
> script/server
>
> to start the server.
>
> fcgid (or the much better passenger) are for deploying but in
> development, just use webrick for now to get going. It's been so long
> since I used fcgid, that I forgot what is needed (probably httpd-devel)
> and maybe some other things but the truth is that fcgid still sucks.
>
> Craig
>
>
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