Re: Ruby and Fedora 17

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

Hi Phil,

----- Original Message -----
> Slavek,
>
> On 2012-07-16 18:02, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Bohuslav,
> > >
> > > On Jul 16 05:39:29 UTC 2012 Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > > > On 2012-07-15 15:23, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > > > > Bohuslav,
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2012-06-19 20:44, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > since Ruby/Fedora integration had some significant changes
> > > > > > from
> > > >
> > > > F16
> > > > > > to F17, I thought it might be a good idea to write a summary
> > > > > > of
> > > >
> > > > new
> > > > > > features and send it out for all - see [1].
> > > > > >
> > > > > > All comments and suggestions for further development are
> > > > > > welcome.
> > > > >
> > > > > On a Fedora 17 x86_64 install:
> > > > >
> > > > > gem list
> > > > >
> > > > > shows:
> > > > >
> > > > > actionmailer (3.2.6)
> > > > >   . .
> > > > >
> > > > > but:
> > > > >
> > > > > updateb
> > > > >   locate gem | grep actionmailer
> > > > >
> > > > > show nothing?
> > > > >
> > > > > What gives?
> > > >
> > > > Hi Phil,
> > > > I can't find a way to reproduce the issue. I tried installing
> > > > the
> > > > gem
> > > > both with "gem install" and "sudo gem install" and both
> > > > locations
> > > > are
> > > > found with "locate gem | grep actionmailer".
> > > > Could you please provide more specific info:
> > > > How did you install the gem? (with or without sudo)
> > > > Was the installation successful?
> > > > Is the actionmailer-3.2.6 directory located under
> > > >
> > > > "/usr/local/share/gems/gems" or
> > > > "/home/<yourusername>/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems"?
> > >
> > > I think I found this after I had done:
> > >
> > > yum install rubygems
> > > would that allow "gem list" to show "actionmailer" ?
> >
> > If you have installed Ruby from Fedora, the Rubygems must have been
> > installed too, so doing "yum install rubygems" probably did
> > nothing.
> > "gem list" command is the standard way to find what gems you have
> > installed on your system.
>
> I understand that - that is why I was surprised that "actionmailer"
> apppeared in the list but I couldn't find where it was in the file
> system (as I could in previous versions).
> > Actually I am not sure about the
> > "updatedb/locate" stuff, I'm not familiar with it very much.
>
> A DB of Existing files in the file system are updated usually by a
> cron
> job nightly but the update can be forced with "updatedb" - locate
> just
> shows the existence of a search string in the updated database ie the
> location of the file.
> > Could you please answer all the questions from my previous email?
>
> I thought I had - trying again:
>
> I had not done any "gem install xx" only "yum install rubygems"
>
> I didn't have any errors up to that point
>
> The "actionmailer" dir could not be found at that time - of course
>
> after further "gem install xx" it exists now under:
> "/usr/local/share/gems/gems"
>
> => That's why I suggested trying to reproduce the problem with a
> fresh
> install of a virtual machine . .

Hmm, so I have precisely the same setup and locate can see actionmailer in /usr/local/share/gems/gems. Is it possible that you're running "locate" under a user who can't read the directory? I'm kind of running out of ideas. It seems that this is not Rubygems related problem.

I tried this locally:
yum install rubygems
gem install actionmailer
updatedb
locate gem | grep actionmailer

These steps printed bunch of the files under /usr/local/share/gems for me, so I can't really reproduce the issue.

Does anyone else have any idea what might be going on here?
> > Also, was this a fresh Fedora 17 install or an upgrade from an
> > older
> > Fedora?
>
> As I said/implied before it was a fresh Fedora install on a virtual
> machine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.