(re-posting an earlier E-mail at Support's suggestion)
I need to use the compass rubygem on the Sonic Web server to permit Sass/Compass CSS translations. It's not installed by default, but a lot of recent responsive design frameworks use it. I thought I'd do a local installation of it, as I've recently done at Pair and BlueHost, but found that the installed version of the gem feature itself is too old:
$ gem install compass
Attempting local installation of 'compass'
Local gem file not found: compass*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'compass'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
HTTP Response 302
That error is indicative of a fairly old version; and indeed:
$ gem --version
0.8.11
I understand that Sonic's running an emulated version of Ruby, but the sass/compass preprocessors are used only during production and speed isn't critical. Would Ops be willing to update the version of rubygems? It should require only this:
$ gem update --system
though occasionally one might have to fall back to this:
$ gem install rubygems-update
$ update_rubygems
Failing a system-wide update, might you arrange for me to install a more recent copy of gem locally? This is a supported mode of operation, and recent versions of gem will do it automatically. However, when I tried to set it up manually at Sonic, I couldn't get beyond the error below:
$ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/7 ... 1.8.24.tgz
$ tar zxf rubygems-1.8.24.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.8.24
$ mkdir $HOME/.gem
$ export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem/gems
$ ruby setup.rb --prefix=$HOME/.gem
$ cd
$ export PATH=$HOME/.gem/bin:$PATH
$ which gem
/home/j/jhudgins/.gem/bin/gem
$ gem --version
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__': no such file to load -- rubygems/exceptions (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
from /home/j/jhudgins/.gem/bin/gem:19
Anyone have suggestions/advice on this? I'm not a frequent Ruby user and may well be doing something wrong here. Thanks.
I need to use the compass rubygem on the Sonic Web server to permit Sass/Compass CSS translations. It's not installed by default, but a lot of recent responsive design frameworks use it. I thought I'd do a local installation of it, as I've recently done at Pair and BlueHost, but found that the installed version of the gem feature itself is too old:
$ gem install compass
Attempting local installation of 'compass'
Local gem file not found: compass*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'compass'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
HTTP Response 302
That error is indicative of a fairly old version; and indeed:
$ gem --version
0.8.11
I understand that Sonic's running an emulated version of Ruby, but the sass/compass preprocessors are used only during production and speed isn't critical. Would Ops be willing to update the version of rubygems? It should require only this:
$ gem update --system
though occasionally one might have to fall back to this:
$ gem install rubygems-update
$ update_rubygems
Failing a system-wide update, might you arrange for me to install a more recent copy of gem locally? This is a supported mode of operation, and recent versions of gem will do it automatically. However, when I tried to set it up manually at Sonic, I couldn't get beyond the error below:
$ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/7 ... 1.8.24.tgz
$ tar zxf rubygems-1.8.24.tgz
$ cd rubygems-1.8.24
$ mkdir $HOME/.gem
$ export GEM_HOME=$HOME/.gem/gems
$ ruby setup.rb --prefix=$HOME/.gem
$ cd
$ export PATH=$HOME/.gem/bin:$PATH
$ which gem
/home/j/jhudgins/.gem/bin/gem
$ gem --version
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__': no such file to load -- rubygems/exceptions (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
from /home/j/jhudgins/.gem/bin/gem:19
Anyone have suggestions/advice on this? I'm not a frequent Ruby user and may well be doing something wrong here. Thanks.
