[OSM-dev] Problem with Linux Install on "rake db:migrate" command

[Lucier, Trent]

Thanks for the help everyone.  Yes, it was a Ruby on Rails
incompatibility issue.  Once I used 2.2.2, I started making progress.

On a non-internet enabled machine, users will run into another problem
with the rake db:migrate command.  There will be an error message saying
something like "getaddrinfo temporary failure in name resolution".  This
is caused by the 031_create_countries.rb script.  The problem is that
the script is trying to access an external site to download a current
list of country information.  The easiest solution seems to be this:

- On an internet-enabled computer, navigate to:
http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo

- Save the webpage (it is an XML file) as a file called countryInfo 

- On the Linux machine where OpenStreetMap will be installed, make sure
Apache is installed and running (service httpd restart).  Put the
countryInfo file that you downloaded in Apache's web directory (ex:
/var/www/html).

- In the file rails_port/db/migrate/031_create_countries.rb, edit the
line that says:

Net::HTTP.start('ws.geonames.org') do |http|

to

Net::HTTP.start('localhost') do |http|

When you run the "rake db:migrate" command, it should complete
successfully.  "rake test" will generally be successful, but you'll
still get several dozen failures due to what appears to be attempts to
access the OpenStreetMap server.  For the time being, I am ignoring
those errors.


-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun McDonald [mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 7:01 PM
To: Lucier, Trent
Cc: dev Openstreetmap
Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Problem with Linux Install on "rake db:migrate"
command


On 1 Jun 2009, at 23:20, Andy Allan wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Lucier, Trent  
> <trent.lucier at lmco.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> I have pasted my error below.  I am not sure what is causing the  
>> problem.
>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/tasks/misc.rake: 
>> 4:in
>> `block in <top (required)>'
>
> Unless anyone else knows better than me, I think you've got the wrong
> version of rails installed. The documentation requires 2.2.2, and you
> have 2.3.2 - and a lot of the advanced stuff in OSM is very
> version-specific (plugins etc).
>
> But like I say, someone else might know better than me.
>

You seem to be using the root user, which should be avoided. You can  
have multiple versions of rails installed at the same time, so you  
must have edited one of the source files: config/environment.rb to get  
it using rails 2.3.2, which we currently don't support.

Shaun