[Radiant] Ruby Gems Installation Issue

[Tom Cloyd]

(I apologize - unaccountably, I sent this earlier to Sean only - not my 
intention!)

Sean,

Thanks very much for your help. See comments below...

>>
>> |radiant --database [mysql|postresql|sqlite3] path/to/project
>> |
>>
>> Didn't work for me. More likely I simply don't know what I'm doing.
>>
>> My initial problem is the IDEA of the "radiant" command. What is 
>> that? The command, as given on the page, doesn't seem to work on the 
>> command line. Thinking that I'm having problems with starting in the 
>> right working directory, I tried "radiant help" (just guessing that 
>> that's possible) in:
>> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/radiant-0.6.4
>> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems
>> and in both cases got just "bash: radiant: command not found"
>>
>> I also got that to this: "radiant --database sqlite3 "/home/tom/Ruby 
>> projects - Toms/radiant-test-CMS"" (no surprise)
>>
>> Something is apparently obvious to everyone but me, so I'm blowing 
>> it. Can someone tell me what it is?
>>
> It's not necessarily that obvious.  Because Ruby and RubyGems seem to 
> be installed in a strange place (/usr or /usr/local is typical),  it's 
> likely that the "radiant" command is not in your PATH environment 
> variable.

> First, try this command:
>
> $ which radiant
>
> If it returns nothing, 
exactly what happened...
> then it's not in the path.  Because RubyGems seems to be installed 
> under /var/lib/gems, try looking for the command under /var/bin.  
I don't have that directory. What am I looking for? Being a bit new to
Linux, I'm still baffled by files which have no extension - and this
looks like it might be one of those, but...all attempts to locate
"radiant" as such a file have failed.
> If it and any other gem scripts are there ('rails' or 'spec' for 
> instance), 
They're in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/
> add that to your path.  You'll probably need to do this in 
> ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login or ~/.bashrc, whichever your system 
> uses.  Add this line:
>
> export PATH=$PATH:/var/bin
Well, I had earlier had a problem with some gem - I don't recall which -
and was advised to modify /etc/profile, and did by adding:

PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/
export PATH

That solved that earlier problem, but not this current one. I'm deeply
puzzled by this. I don't have problem with any other gems. Just the
radiant one, and it IS sitting in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ - radiant-0.6.4

> Then you should be able to run the 'radiant' command.  As today is 
> "Radiant Day", I'll be in the IRC room most of the day.  Feel free to 
> bring your question to me there!
Thanks for the offer. Didn't get to this until about 2AM Saturday
morning. Didn't think you'd be in the IRC room. Went there, posted a
message, and got no reply. Maybe catch you there another time.

I have updated the system file database (or whatever it's called) - with
"sudo updatedb", and rerun the "locate" and "whereis" commands for
"radiant". "whereis" produced nothing. "locate" spewed out the files in
"/var/lib/gems/1.8/doc/radiant-0.6.4/", of course. It also listed
"/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/radiant", so, I executed the

radiant --database sqlite3 "/home/tom/Ruby projects - Toms/radiant-test-CMS"

command I'd tried earlier, from within that dir, and once again got:
bash: radiant: command not found

Nothing works. Nothing. Very disappointing.

I'm obviously very open to further ideas. And thanks for your help to
this point.

t.

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