[Radiant] Ruby Gems Installation Issue

[Tom Cloyd]

Rufo Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd at comcast.net 
> <mailto:tomcloyd at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     "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
>
>
> Tom,
> Apologies if you know/tried this already, but sometimes it's the 
> simple things... What happens if you run the "radiant" command using 
> the absolute path, e.g.
>
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/radiant
>
> ...instead of switching to the /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin directory?
>
> Most UNIX installs don't put the current directory in PATH for 
> security reasons, so while that may have been the radiant command you 
> tried to launch, the shell may not have found it.
>
> If that works, you can add the /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin directory to your 
> PATH, and from that point on you should be good to go.
>
> Hope this helps, and good luck with your Radiant adventures,
> Rufo
Well [expletive deleted - several of them, in fact...]! That appears to 
have done it. I got a lot of output from that command, and it sure looks 
like the right sort of things happened.

I realize that being rather new to Linux there is much I don't know, but 
this latest piece of secret knowledge flabbergasts me.  Why can't 
radiant use the same path all the other gems seems to successfully use? 
How could I ever have figured out this problem without your expert help? 
I couldn't, it's a good bet.

Now, my next big problem: it appears that I'm supposed to be 
Rails-cognizant, which I surely am not. I wish that had been made clear 
at the website. I'd still have come to this point, but would have 
studied up a bit beforehand. So...that's next. "You only need to create 
the "production" database..." Yeah, sure. I have no idea what that 
means. Yet. Onward.

Thanks again. Much appreciated!

T.

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