Newbie setup

rubyonrails-talk
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I am new to all of this so bare with me. I just did a complete setup on a OS X machine in my directory. Then I tried to access everything from a different directory and couldn't get any of it. In my directory I have the newer version of rails, etc. In the other directory it only shows the older version of ruby and no rails. My question: Is there a way to access everything I did from any personal directory or do I have to do the same installation again for each directory?

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Hi,

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Hi, if you followed the instructions, then you should have added the directory that contains the executables to you path. For example, in the .profile, I have something like this

export PATH=<the_name_of_the_directory_that_contains_ruby_executable>:$PATH

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Hi, please follow one of the setups in Chapter 3 of AWDwRv2 for Mac OS X. Here’s one that I have used in the past:

http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Yes, I installed everything as indicated at

but I can only access everything from one directory only. Is it suppose to work this way?

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Already did all this. My question is am I only able to run all of this from the directory I installed it all in? Because I can't access it anywhere else.

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yes I did this exactly as stated in the instructions. It all works fine but am I only suppose to be able to access rails and this updated ruby in my directory only? Because when I go to any other directory I cannot access anything but the Ruby version (older) that came with OS X 10.4

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As someone stated previously the problem is probably that you don't have the executable's for rails and ruby in your path BEFORE the default versions.

Here is line from my .bash_profile (my ruby and rails are in /usr/ local/bin-- the others are for mysql an lighttpd):

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin: $PATH"

You will need to type ". ~/.bash_profile" after you add this for this session but for future sessions it should be run automatically.

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Finally got it. Thanks so much. I am a pure beginner and I didn't realize that I had to make the PATH change in each user directory.

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Quoting "railsfid@gmail.com" <railsfid@gmail.com>, who spaketh thusly:

Finally got it. Thanks so much. I am a pure beginner and I didn't realize that I had to make the PATH change in each user directory.

You can also make the change to /etc/profile and it will be global to all accounts across the machine.

-- Mitch