Problem deploying Rails 3 with Passenger: missing the mysql gem - mysql

I have a problem that seems very related to that in another post, but I don't understand the solution that was arrived at. I am new to Rails, and have put together a Rails 3 app. I am developing in Windows am trying to deploy it to my (shared) Redhat Linux server via git and capistrano, and using Passenger to serve the pages. The deployment process goes fine, but when I try to look at the webpage I get a Passenger error:
!!! Missing the mysql gem. Add it to your Gemfile: gem 'mysql', '2.8.1'.
In fact, I have added the corresponding line to my Gemfile, and doing a 'gem list' on the server shows that it is there.
In this post, the user helpfully noted exactly the same problem and observed that the Gemfile.lock has the gem for Windows, i.e.
mysql (2.8.1-x86-mingw32).
This is exactly the same in my Gemfile.lock, and so I imagine the same issue is happening for me; one can see that this is the gem in vendor/cache and vendor/bundle.
However, I don't understand how the proposed fix from that post is supposed to work. I can edit the mysql line in Gemfile.lock to be mysql (2.8.1), but then I get a different Passenger error that says
Can't find mysql-2.8.1 in any of the sources.
How can I fix this?

In case someone encounters the same problem, here are some things I did that made it work. I don't understand enough of what was going on to know exactly what did the trick.
First, in the Gemfile, I specified that we wanted both ruby and windows versions of the relevant gems.
gem 'sqlite3-ruby', "~> 1.2.5", :platforms => [:mswin, :ruby_18]
gem 'mysql', "2.8.1", :platforms => [:mswin, :ruby_18]
Then on the production server, after using "cap deploy", I removed the gem mysql-2.81-x86-mingw32 from both vendor/bundle and vendor/cache. My production server lets me 'gem install mysql' and 'gem install sqlite3-ruby' but puts it elsewhere in my home directory; I copied these into vendor/bundle and vendor/cache. I edited the Gemfile.lock to change the line 'mysql (2.8.1-x86-mingw32)' to 'mysql (2.8.1)'. 'bundle install' on the production server then seems to install the linux native gems (at least it says 'building native extensions').
After all this, it seems to work.

Run the command bundle install. I'm sure this will fix your issue.
Also, do not edit or move over the Gemfile.lock. Let bundler take care of that.

Related

Heroku error: Please install the postgresql adapter but I'm using mysql, so why am I seeing this error?

Please install the postgresql adapter: gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter (pg is not part of the bundle. Add it to Gemfile.)
So I followed the instructions here: How to handle Ruby on Rails error: "Please install the postgresql adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter'"
First of all, that doesn't fix my issue (causes other errors that I'd need to debug), but regardless, why should I have to install the PG interface for ruby exactly? I'm on mysql!
Edit: I've been told Heroku doesn't support MySQL. Was this a recent change? I was using mysql just about 3 months back for my Heroku site without any issues at all.
I don't want to presume anything but if you were able to work with heroku before, you probably had something like this in your Gemfile:
group :production do
gem 'pg'
....
end
group :development do
gem 'rspec-rails'
gem 'sqlite3'
....
end
This would ensure that rails is using mysql (or sqlite3 if you copy the example verbatim) in the development environment and postgres ('pg') on the production environment hosted by heroku. Give this a shot and see if it solves your problem. I hope it does.

Just started ROR Lynda Tutorial, Error while trying to execute rails server

Just started ROR Lynda Tutorial, Error while trying to execute the rails server in terminal.
New to ROR. Followed tutorial closely and installed all necessary gems and files. Creating a simple CMS. However I'm stuck with the following error.
$ rails server
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:3.
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/source.rb:162.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#each is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#each called from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.10/lib/bundler/source.rb:162.
Could not find gem 'mysql2 (~> 0.2.6)' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile.
I have installed MySQL server version 5.5.13. I have Rails version 3. I have the MySQL(0.3.2) gem file installed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
The best way to fix this is to run
gem pristine --all
This rebuilds the Gems and should get rid of the error for you.
From the error I see that most likely your setup is not right. You should do a 'bundle check' to see if all dependencies have been met, I am quite sure they haven't. If you haven't yet done a 'bundle install' you need to do so, if you've done that already, then the problem is that bundler wasn't able to install mysql2 gem version 0.2.6 (it must be mentioned somewhere either in you Gemfile or somehow in the Gemfile.lock in case you've got that from somewhere else). So you would then either bundle install will fix it, or if not, then you should probably do a 'bundle update mysql2'

Installing Rails, MySQL, etc. everything goes wrong

I've been struggling with this for a few hours. Everything just stopped working and I can't get it to work anymore. I'm a noob at Ruby, Ruby on Rails and the Terminal in general. This is really frustrating me so I just try to describe my problem as detailed as possible hoping someone can give me a solution.
I'm on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I couldn't get Rails working at all just now: Could not find gem 'rails' headaches
But after some tries of reinstalling it, it suddenly worked again. But now I just can't get MySQL to work, and it sometimes even breaks the Rails installation again.
This is what I do:
sudo gem uninstall rails
sudo gem uninstall mysql
sudo gem uninstall mysql2
After these commands, I check the installed gems with gem list. No MySQL gem is listed anymore, but I can still see rails (2.3.5, 2.2.2, 1.2.6)
. Is this normal? Does this mean I have 3 Rails installations? It doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, then I do this:
sudo gem clean
Which fails completely. I get a bunch of errors like this:
Attempting to uninstall fcgi-0.8.7
Unable to uninstall fcgi-0.8.7:
Gem::InstallError: cannot uninstall, check gem list -d fcgi
It doesn't uninstall anything. At this point, I try to install everything again. I start with:
sudo gem install rails
Which succeeds (I think):
Successfully installed rails-3.0.3
Successfully installed builder-2.1.2
2 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.3...
File not found: lib
Then, I update RubyGems:
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo update_rubygems
Then it says I have 1.3.7 installed, so it succeeded, I think. So now I proceed with installing MySQL. I already got MySQL 5.5.8 installed on my machine. I did some research about installing MySQL on Snow Leopard, and it seems I have to use this command:
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
I get a bunch of errors like this:
No definition for time_set_neg
No definition for time_set_second_part
No definition for time_equal
No definition for error_errno
At this point, I assume I got both Rails and the MySQL gem installed, so I try to start a new project.
rails new user_group -d mysql
It works! Rails is installed correctly. Now, I try generating a model.
cd user_group
rails generate model User
It fails with this error:
Could not find gem 'mysql2 (>= 0, runtime)' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile.
Try running bundle install.
So I try running bundle install. It installs a lot of gems. Then I try to generate my model again. I get this error:
Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib (LoadError)
Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle
Reason: image not found - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql2-0.2.6/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle
This is as far as I can get. What should I do? And why should this be so hard...
Snow Leopard supplies Ruby 1.8.7. Ruby 1.8.7 doesn't automatically add the require 'rubygems' command to a Ruby script, like 1.9.2 will, so in general you need to add that to your script. That fixes the problems with Ruby not finding the gems called by your code in a lot of cases. Rails is a different animal, but the version with 1.8.7 is well documented so you should have found a fix pretty quickly.
The Ruby supplied by Snow Leopard is really for its own use. Users can piggyback on that, but it's installed by Apple because they have applications that use it. Use locate podcast | grep rb$ to see. Similarly, Perl and Python in Snow Leopard are used to support code Apple has installed so messing with them is not a good idea. Changing the built-in Ruby, Perl or Python usually won't cause the system to explode in flames, but it can cause irritating and unexplained problems farther down the road when system maintenance routines stop working.
By using sudo to remove gems installed by Apple and add new ones, you've left your system Ruby in an unexpected state as far as Apple's apps are concerned. Rather than mess with Apple's Ruby, you should install a separate Ruby for your own use using Fink or MacPorts, or from source code, or by using RVM.
Personally, I use RVM because it creates a ~/.rvm sandbox in your home directory, and makes it easy to manage multiple versions of Ruby and gems. RVM requires you to install the XCode development library, which you can download from http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ after a free registration. XCode is also on your system DVD, but that version is reported to be buggy, so use the downloaded version.
Make sure to add the MySql gem to that projects gemfile with the following code:
gem 'mysql', '2.8.1'
Run a bundle install/update and try it. You told it to use MySQL and the gem might even be installed, but you aren't loading it.
Also, you're failing at a couple of points: notice the
File not found: lib
Then again, I could be completely wrong about this - it's my attempt at providing a clue for your troubleshooting.

Installing MYSQL and passenger gems, getting no definitions for documentation

I'm running Mac OSX 10.6.4 and setting up rails for the first time. I've been following a bunch of guides to get set up, specifically these two here and here. Also, I know this question has been asked before, but nothing has helped me and my circumstances are a bit different.
First, let me give you my setup.
I've installed Xcode, but I don't want to use the system ruby so, what I did was, I installed RVM and created two gemsets for different ruby versions (1.8.7#rails2.3.8 and 1.9.2#rails3), cause I also want to try rails 3.
I created a global gemset so that I could install passenger and mysql for 1.8.7 and not have to do it for each project. Then set the global gemset by rvm gemset use global
I had already installed MacPorts in a previous step, so what I've done is install mysql using this command sudo port install mysql5 mysql5-server.
Now I run gem install passenger and then passenger-install-apache2-module. This is where I ran into the first issue. Passenger installed fine, but I got "no definition" errors when it tried to install the documentation.
Finally, I want to install the mysql gem so I followed the steps here by adding rvm_archflags="-arch x86_64" to the ~/.rvmc file and then ran export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ; gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_config Here is where I ran into the issue again. I got a "Successfully installed mysql-2.8.1" message, but all the documentation returned "no definition" errors!
So, why am I getting these errors when installing gems? What can I do to get them installed without errors and ensure future gem installations don't have this problem?
Note: I'm not using sudo because RVM tells you not to.
Here is a link to your problem. They are saying the same thing and the answer is that it's just noise. Obviously something is not right but there is not and should not be a problem. It's most likely that all is fine and documentation was not created, installed, or linked correctly.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=629077
A -- alone (as written in step 5) usually means to stop reading options. I expect that this is wrong and doesn't belong here or is incomplete (ie, should be --something).

Rails 3 Mysql Problems

Trying to start a new Rails 3 beta 4 app with mysql.... Running OS X Snow Leopard. WIth previous versions of Rails I have no problem with MySQL. But now when I start the Rails 3 app I get the following error when I click "About Your Application Environment" on the Rails index.html startup screen:
undefined method `init' for Mysql:Class
Change your Gemfile to use 'mysql2', it's a more modern driver and has nicer features as other people have mentioned.
New Rails applications use the mysql2 gem by default.
I ran into the same issue (RoR 3, OSX 10.6, mysql 2.8.1 gem).
You can use irb to rule out RoR:
irb
require 'rubygems'
require 'mysql'
db = Mysql.connect('hostname', 'username', 'password', 'database')
If the above doesn't work, you may want to try removing the mysql gem and reinstalling it. I came across a post saying bundle install might mess up the install without displaying errors.
sudo gem uninstall mysql
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Verify things work via irb, then start up rails again.
I ended up switching from the mysql gem to the ruby-mysql gem, worked.
For simple usage, which is typical (connecting, querying, iterating over results), I found mysql2 gem which is much faster than mysql or ruby-mysql gems and auto-casts values to proper types. And it installes perfectly on Snow Leopard while I couldn't get mysql gem to work.
More info at http://github.com/brianmario/mysql2
I think I have found the solution for the problem. In my case the problem was that the mysql gem hasn't been properly installed using the bundler . when I did this:
bundle install mysql (noobish mistake)
all gems went to mysql directory, but later on I have checked the docs of the bundler gem
and did this:
bundle install bundler_files ( to know where the gems are in the future)
everything looked almost ok except that when mysql gem was installing i got some errors.
I noticed that it was because of my folder path "/home/pawel/Aptana Studio Workspace/myrails_app"
If you have spaces in your folder path this gem wont install properly and later on when you modify the path to one without spaces and try to install the mysql gem IT WONT DISPLAY ANY ERRORS, but the installation will be corrupted, because you will have some extra folders there with some files etc. so
DELETE THE GEM FOLDER CREATED BY BUNDLER AND REINSTALL GEMS WITH THIS COMMAND:
bundle install
That solved the problem.
you can try switching to the mysql2 gem which should resolve all that issues for you. see: https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/
I think what happens is that the mysql gem isn't able to load the mysql dynamic library (supposed to be supplied by the native MySQL installation). To test whether this is happening, do this
$ irb
1.9.2p320 :001 > require 'mysql_api'
=> true
1.9.2p320 :002 >
If it isn't able to load this low level mysql_api, (which actually supplies the functionality to the mysql gem), it will give you some potentially useful errors. Usually it is not able to find the dynamic library. To remedy this, I found a couple of solutions:
From http://wonko.com/post/how-to-install-the-mysqlruby-gem-on-mac-os-x-leopard, do this
For system-wide install
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \
--with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include
or local install
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \
--with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include
and then from http://alexbraunstein.com/2011/08/12/library-loaded-libmysqlclient-18-dylib/ put in .bash_profile:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
I has the same issue after upgrading to Snow Leopard. On installing the MySQL gem, I got a bunch of errors about the documentation, then, on running the server:
undefined method `init' for Mysql:Class
I was also having some similar, but unrelated issues with other gems, particularly those that had C components that needed compiling such as RedCloth and hpricot:
Unable to compile native extensions
These errors were to do with native extensions in base 64 architecture. The solution was threefold:
I reinstalled XCode 4. The upgrade to Snow Leopard had broken my C compiler, so some gems were failing to compile. This took me a step closer, but didn't fix the issue.
I blew away and reinstalled RVM. It appeared to be installing gems in one directory, and finding them in another. This fixed every native architecture base64 error, but the MySQL gem was still failing.
I removed and downgraded MySQL to version 5.1. This fixed the MySQL gem issue.
All is now well again.