Comments on: GTD, Ruby on Rails and the Mac

By: KiranKumars

KiranKumars — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:12:09 +0000

Hi, thanks and this helped me lot, but i face problem in starting Ruby server. I downloaded locomotive for MAC (StandardRailsMar2007.dmg) and installed the package in Appliactions/My Rails . I had given given all the parameters in locomotive.yml as below mode: development bundle: /Applications/"My Rails"/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle port: 3010 runsatlaunch: 0 identifier: ProjectX

and i am trying to start the server , but it is not starting.Its giving errors

The server starts if bundle path is /Applications/MyRails/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle and the difference is MyRails folder has space in the above. Why the server doesnt start if folder name has spaces.Is this a bug? and how can i resolve this situtation, can any one guide me in the right direction

By: Links van 17.05.2008 tot 24.05.2008 | Branders.name

Links van 17.05.2008 tot 24.05.2008 | Branders.name — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:04:36 +0000

[...] GTD, Ruby on Rails and the MacThere?s been a lot of buzz on the internet about a method to Getting Things Done. I use an simple and elegant solution called Tracks. It?s made in Ruby on Rails, so to set it up can be a pain for the more technically challanged.(gtd osx rails ruby ) [...]

By: links for 2007-08-07 « Amy G. Dala

links for 2007-08-07 « Amy G. Dala — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:17:27 +0000

[...] Jacken’s Blog » Blog Archive » GTD, Ruby on Rails and the Mac Tracks + Locomotive (tags: gtd RoR ruby productivity osx tips) [...]

By: Getting more organized at Schulte in Minnesota

Getting more organized at Schulte in Minnesota — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:09:50 +0000

[...] an effort to be a bit more efficient, I went and installed Tracks using Jacken’s directions for running it using Locomotive. I’ve been finding of late that I’ve got a lot going on [...]

By: Loopy

Loopy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:53:08 +0000

For what's its worth I was having problems getting this to work until I moved the Tracks folder to my Sites folder and changed this:

development: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Documents/tracks-1.041/db/tracks-104.db

test: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Documents/tracks-1.041/db/tracks-104.db

production: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Documents/tracks-1.041/db/tracks-104.db

to:

development: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Sites/tracks-1.043/db/tracks-104.db

test: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Sites/tracks-1.043/db/tracks-104.db

production: adapter: sqlite3 database: ~/Sites/tracks-1.043/db/tracks-104.db

and then http://127.0.0.1:3000

and presto… Tracks on my mac.

Thanks for the handy installation and the help.

By: GTD Application - Tracks at Did I Get Things Done? - Getting Things Done GTD with Personal Development and Motivation for Success

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:50:59 +0000

[...] found a good looking GTD application via another Jackens Blog. I must admit that it looks a good app and is right up to date, created in [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:22:42 +0000

I just tried to install following all the instructions and ended with commenting out the IF ELSE END.

Now Tracks starts, but immediately neds with page fulls of erros messages, the first of which is:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/plain Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) /Users/chris/Documents/tracks-

I guess taht all the following ones are a consequence of thsi one.

What now?

Any help is really appreciated.

Chris

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:17:57 +0000

Well, since the comment formatting blitzed my code, I'll try one more time... at the bottom of the boot.rb file, I did this:

#if File.directory?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails") #  require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer" #else require 'rubygems' require 'initializer' #end

If it fails miserably again, just comment out the first 3 lines ("if", "require","else") and the associated "end" (last line).

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:06:55 +0000

Oh, forgot one more thing I had to do... the 'boot.rb' file in the /config directory has a reference to railties which I had to remove for the application to start. I changed my boot.rb to look like this (basically commenting out the "if"):

if File.directory?("#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails")

require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer"

else

require 'rubygems' require 'initializer'

end

..it seems that Tracks 1.0.43 expects railties to be in the /vendor/rails dir, but its not included in the Zip file.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:00:45 +0000

As Ray indicated, it won’t work with 2.0.8 Locomotive “out of the box”. Tracks appears to be incompatible with Rails 1.2.1+ so you just need to download the RMagickRailsSep2006 bundle for Locomotive from here (under the Bundles section):

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=146941

…and place the bundle in the “Bundles” directory (this dir is in the same dir as the Locomotive.app). Then when you create your tracks loco entry, select “RMagick Rails Sep 2006″ in the drop down to use an older version of Rails. This got me up and running with the rest of the instructions above.

Thanks for the tutorial!