Railsgrammer

To setup a new rails 3 app with cucumber, no prototype and mysql database using ruby 1.9.2

This guide assumes you have ruby 1.9.2, rubygems and bundler gem installed

[msimpson@dakota ~] $ mkdir rails3
[msimpson@dakota ~] $ cd rails3
[msimpson@dakota rails3] $ git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git rails3 .
[msimpson@dakota rails3] (master) $ ruby bin/rails new /path/to/my/new/app --dev -d mysql -J
[msimpson@dakota rails3] $ cd /path/to/my/new/app

Open and edit Gemfile so that it looks like this:

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', :path => '/Users/mattsimpson/Projects/_resources/Code/Rails3'
gem 'arel',  :git => 'git://github.com/rails/arel.git'
gem 'mysql'

group :cucumber do
  gem 'cucumber-rails'
  gem 'cucumber'
  gem 'factory_girl'
  gem 'webrat'
  gem 'ruby-debug19'
end

Install your gems

[msimpson@dakota rails3] $ bundle install

Install Cucumber with webrat and test unit

[msimpson@dakota rails3] $ rails generate cucumber:install --webrat --testunit

Open and edit config/database.yml and create your database by running the following:

[msimpson@dakota app] $ rake db:create:all

You are good to go!

Originally I was having troubles with rake test and rake cucumber, but after recreating my rails app this way it all worked great. Hope it works for you.

In this I will explore and solve issues I had in upgrading rails 3 to the latest rails 3 version.

Following the rails 3 update saga continues.  After taking a break to make some leaps in the design process on an application, I came back to programming the app.  After writing some cucumber tests I received a series of deprecated messages.  One thing I would like to note is that rails 3 is very good at letting you know what is going on and what you need to do.  Let’s get started:

My gemfile for cucumber looks like this:

group :cucumber do
  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'database_cleaner'
  gem 'cucumber-rails'
  gem 'cucumber'
  gem 'spork'
  gem 'launchy'    # So you can do Then show me the page
  gem 'factory_girl'
  gem 'webrat'
end

When I tried to run my cucumber test I got this message:  ”undefined method `config’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)”

So I updated my gems via bundle:

[msimpson@dakota Code] $ bundle install

and I got the message:

No compatible versions could be found for required dependencies:
Conflict on: "bundler":
* bundler (0.9.25) activated by bundler (= 0.9.25, runtime)
* bundler (>= 1.0.0.beta.2, runtime) required by rails (>= 0, runtime)
All possible versions of origin requirements conflict.

so I installed the new bundler

[msimpson@dakota Code] $ sudo gem install bundler -v 1.0.0.beta.2

reran the cucumbers and got this:

    Rails 3 doesn't officially support Ruby 1.9.1 since recent stable
    releases have segfaulted the test suite. Please upgrade to Ruby 1.9.2
    before Rails 3 is released!
    You're running
      ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-darwin10.3.0]
so I noticed I needed to install the new ruby 1.9.2 release candidate.  Since I use rvm I had to update rvm, remove my old ruby 1.9.2, re-install it and reinstall bundler:
[msimpson@dakota Code] $rvm update
[msimpson@dakota Code] $rvm reload
[msimpson@dakota Code] $rvm remove 1.9.2
[msimpson@dakota Code] $rvm install 1.9.2
[msimpson@dakota Code] $rvm use 1.9.2
[msimpson@dakota Code] $sudo gem install bundler -v 1.0.0.beta.2
[msimpson@dakota Code] $ bundle install
I didn't get all the way through but I'm pretty sure I got closer  , currently I'm working on getting cucumber to install and run.  Hope this helps, if anyone gets any further let me know.

I’ve had to revert from ruby 1.9.2-preview to ruby 1.9.1 p378.

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rvm install 1.9.1
[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rvm use 1.9.1
Install rails 3 with the new ruby install
[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ sudo gem install rails --prerelease

Create a new rails app using mysql

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rails myapp --edge -d mysql

Now you will be able to create your db and start your app

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rake db:create:all
[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rails server

Yay!!  Rails 3, here we go!

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rvm install 1.9.2
[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rvm use 1.9.2

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ irb
> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.2"
> hash = { :first => "the first value", :second => "the second value" }
=> {:second=>"the second value", :first=>"the first value"}
> hash.each_with_index.collect{|array, index| "key: #{array[0]} | value: #{array[1]} | index: #{index}"}
=> ["key: second | value: the second value | index: 0", "key: first | value: the first value | index: 1"]

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ sudo gem install rails --prerelease

[msimpson@dakota Code] (master) $ rails . --edge

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