I need to install the latest actionwebservice from source. I have
spent quite a bit of time looking for info on the net and reading
books but couldn't find a clear and cut set of instructions about how
to do this.
This is the first time I try to build a gem from source and I am
unsure as how to proceed. I don't know if I need to 'build' the gem or
what else to do. I have tried running both the 'setup.rb' and
'install.rb' that come with the gem but that did not work. I am kind
of out of ideas.
I'm on Windows. The currently installed version of the gem is 1.2.6
but that is causing conflicts with actionpack. This is the last step
to try and solve a conflict in my application using web services. I am
trying to install from source because I made a change to the required
versions of other gems as I don't want to change the version of Rails
I am running.
Every time I try to update actionwebservice the system tells me there
is nothing to update. I tried installing the gem specifying version
2.3.2 (apparently the latest) and it couldn't find it. In any case
that would not change much because in the gemspec file it still says
that it requires actionpack 2.3.2 exactly (=), not higher or equal
than (>=), which would not change the problem I'm running into.
About changing the version of rails running, I think I can specify
that in environment.rb (I remember doing that before) but that is what
I don't want to do.
I need to install the latest actionwebservice from source. I have
spent quite a bit of time looking for info on the net and reading
books but couldn't find a clear and cut set of instructions about how
to do this.
This is the first time I try to build a gem from source and I am
unsure as how to proceed. I don't know if I need to 'build' the gem or
what else to do. I have tried running both the 'setup.rb' and
'install.rb' that come with the gem but that did not work. I am kind
of out of ideas.
you run gem build blah.gemspec. This should create a .gem file
somewhere in that folder, you can then do gem install blah.gem
Well, got all the kinks solved and now my application is working just
fine. Thanks a lot Fred, without your comments on this and my other
thread I don't think I would have made it.