Simply Rails 2 Chapter 10

Ruby
1

Hi there,

after installing the plugin acts_as_taggable_on_steroids like Patrick described in his book I run into the following problem. I want to follow page 361 and typing this “s = Story.find(:first)” in the console I get this error:

Z:\rails_apps\shovelltest>ruby script\console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.0.2)
>> s = Story.find(:first)
RuntimeError: acts_as_taggable_on_steroids has been moved to github: hxxp://gith
ub.com/jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
from Z:/rails_apps/shovelltest/vendor/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroi
ds/lib/acts_as_taggable.rb:10:in acts_as_taggable' from Z:/rails_apps/shovelltest/app/models/story.rb:2 from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:203:in load_without_new_constant_marking’
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:203:in load_file' from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:342:in new_constants_in’
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:202:in load_file' from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:94:in require_or_load’
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:248:in load_missing_constant' from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo rt/dependencies.rb:453:in const_missing’
from d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:465:in `const_missing’
from (irb):1

Has anyone an idea what’s going wrong?

Best regards, Pedro

2

Hi ad, welcome to the forums

Hopefully this helps http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=625817

3

Hi Mittineague,

thanks for your reply. Very embarrassing that I forgot to use the search engine. I should know it better.

Again, thank you very much.

Pedro

4

Same trouble with chapter 10

I read this, followed [URL=“http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/errata.php”]these instructions, installed Git, opened rails console, ran the command (see output below), but didn’t get the plugin. Help!

Rails console output:

C:\\InstantRails\\rails_apps\\shovell>ruby script/plugin install http://github.com/
jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git/ --force
Plugin not found: ["http://github.com/jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git/"]

Running rails on Windows XP SP3. Does Git need to be configured somehow? :sick:

5

Since you have git installed, my recommendation is to go to your command line and change directories to your plugin directory (located in the vendor directory) and issue:

git clone http://github.com/jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git

Not sure why, but Windows doesn’t seem to appreciate the script/plugin install command.

6

I presume that some maintenance was required namely to add git install directory and them “bin” to “path” environmental variable to have short-hand “git” command available.

Output of rails console after the command:

C:\\InstantRails\\rails_apps\\shovell\\vendor\\plugins>git clone http://github.com/jv
iney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git
fatal: destination path 'acts_as_taggable_on_steroids' already exists and is not
 an empty directory.

Is there an “uninstall plugin” command or just deleting folder structure sufficient? Any rails code change required?

Thanks for help so far!

7

Thanks for the help. Now I can continue following the book.

This was done on MS Windows.

I rolled back migration (rails console)

rake db:rollback

closed instantRails

deleted plugin with windows explorer in directory “(…)shovell/vendor/plugins” acts_as_taggable_on_steroids ('Cause otherwise rails tracked plugin location, renaming folder didn’t work)

deleted migration file with windows explorer in directory “(…)shovell/db/migrate/(##)_acts_as_taggable_migration.rb”

installed Git as instructed in articles

started instantRails
executed command (below) in shovel application to get plugin the new way

git clone http://github.com/jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git

executed migration steps from the book

ruby script/generate acts_as_taggable_migration

rake db:migrate

and everything is working. What a satisfaction! :eye: