no such file to load -- ferret

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 2:09pm

Hi there,

I'm just trying to deploy my app to my vhost, and i'm getting an error on the phusion passenger page:

now everything worked fine in development.

DO i need to reinstall the plugin and gem again? if so - would these be in domain.com/public? or should it be installed at domain.com?

ANy advice would be great!

THank you.

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 5:25pm

Hello all,

just to elaborate on this:

It's complaining about ''/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom_require.rb''

Which, after some digging I found:

def require(path) # :nodoc: gem_original_require path rescue LoadError => load_error if load_error.message =~ /\A[Nn]o such file to load -- # {Regexp.escape path}\z/ and spec = Gem.searcher.find(path) then Gem.activate(spec.name, false, "= #{spec.version}") gem_original_require path else raise load_error end end

THe error suggests line 31 which is: Gem.activate(spec.name, false, "= #{spec.version}")

However this is my 1st deployment so not 100% sure what's happening here..

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 5:33pm

You are missing the ferret gem. Install it if that is possible with your hosting. Otherwise you could try install ferret as plugin (in vendor/plugins) or just freeze your rails app, I think the command goes something like this: rake rails:freeze:gems then upload all that to your hosting place and try again Merry Christmass

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 5:37pm

When you see that line: no such file to load – XXX it generally means a gem is missing. The first thing you might try is do: gem install XXX. Sometimes you see no such file to load – XXX/YYY, then you could try gem install XXX-YYY or gem install XXX_YYY. Of course you have to do it in the environment which is complaining. In this case your production hosting provider.

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 5:40pm

I'll take another loook... thanks.

the host does allow me to upload this stuff. looking at my list of gems, I already have acts_as_ferret...

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.3.3) actionpack (2.3.3) activerecord (2.3.3) activeresource (2.3.3) activesupport (2.3.3) acts_as_ferret (0.4.4) columnize (0.3.1) fastthread (1.0.7) ferret (0.11.6) linecache (0.43) mysql (2.8.1, 2.7) rack (1.0.0) rails (2.3.3) rake (0.8.7) ruby-debug (0.10.3) ruby-debug-base (0.10.3) ruby-recaptcha (1.0.0) rubygems-update (1.3.5) sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5) will_paginate (2.3.11)

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 5:43pm

I believe they are different things with similar looking names.

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 5:49pm

Ah yes.... correct.

I accessed my public area on the host server and ran:

sudo gem install ferret

THis returned with the following:

Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ferret: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb extconf.rb:11:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:11

What exactly does this mean and how do I fix it? I do apologise, I've spent all day looking for this, and I'm not sure where to go..

Merry Christmas

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 5:55pm

Now you have encountered dependencies Just do the same thing (gem install XXX) for mkmf this time Or try sudo gem install ferret --include-dependencies

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 6:03pm

thanks for the reply,

so - sudo gem install ferret --include-dependencies didn't work...

what do you mean by: gem install XXX for mkmf

i did try gem install mkmf, but this isn't a gem.... ERROR: could not find gem mkmf locally or in a repository

Sorry about this....

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 6:14pm

Take a look at this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/10/27/fixing-mkmf-load-error-ruby-in-ubuntu/ No problem, keep asking questions, I’ll do my best to help, but its getting a little late here so don’t hold your breath if I am not responding fast enough

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 6:24pm

That's an excellent site, and that seems to have moved me onto the next error (!)

no such file to load -- mysql (MissingSourceFile)

ERROR: Error installing mysql: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lm... yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lz... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lsocket... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lnsl... yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lmygcc... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options.

This may be real easy to some, but on my first deployment, this is a bit over my head....

Gintautas_Simkus · December 24, 2009, 6:27pm

Nice to hear that What I use when I get an error is just copy/paste into google and read through a few top-most links. In this case I would just make a search query for “no such file to load – mysql (MissingSourceFile)”

Craig_Westmoreland · December 24, 2009, 6:37pm

Hmmm..

I may have to keep looking, just tried: /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb -- with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include

and it returns with:

ERROR: Error installing mysql: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with- mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/ include checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lm... yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lz... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lsocket... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lnsl... yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no checking for main() in -lmygcc... no checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options.

Is this a problem with the host, of am I doing something wrong?

Thanks again,