Comments on: DataMapper Problems on DreamHost

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:03 +0000

Hi Charlotte. Yes, I’m on Dreamhost, too. I’m just starting out with Ruby apps there, so I’ll see how it goes. All the best.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:50 +0000

Thanks! I actually was able to run it after a few days after this post.

Now my problem is, since I’m hosted on a shared server, my ruby apps are being killed by a DreamHost script due to exceeding of RAM usage.

Are you hosted on a shared server too?

By: Duane

Duane — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:12:24 +0000

Hi. I was able to get DataMapper working on Dreamhost with Sinatra. I installed all of the needed gems (sinatra, rack, datamapper, json, etc.) locally in my ~/.gem/gems folder following the instructions at:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems

Then, I needed to make a .htaccess file in my public folder with the following lines, to make sure Phusion used my local gems:

SetEnv GEM_HOME /home/username/.gems
SetEnv GEM_PATH /home/username/.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

following these instructions:

http://markcarey.org/blog/2008/12/09/passenger-rack-on-dreamhost/

So, you may not need ‘gem.clear_paths’ before requiring datamapper, so you don’t call the dreamhost gem.

Hope it helps.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:44:07 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I posted this problem on the DataMapper google group but no one answered.

I did try removing version of the dependency a long time ago, it did work. But I didn’t have time to test it. I was also afraid that maybe DataMapper needed something in that specific version.

That would be cool, by removing the dependencies from the library code, would give more flexibility to DataMapper.
I’ll look forward for that release.

By: Dan Kubb

Dan Kubb — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:12:04 +0000

Technically you should just be able to downgrade the dependency on fastthread 1.0.4 to 1.0.1 and it should just work.

The main reason we had it set as a dep is because we haven’t personally tested that specific version with DataMapper. It’s very likely it won’t cause any problems at all though.

In the next minor release of DataMapper I’m going to remove all the hard dependencies in the code and allow programmers to manage their own gem dependencies. I’ll set up version recommendations in the gemspec/Rakefile, but we won’t enforce them in the library code anymore.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:53:49 +0000

Hmmmn… She has Short hair… hahaha
So I guess I should keep in mind how big baobaos are…
Haruhi chars are cute, but I prefer Nagato the most.

I will not give up on using DataMapper. hehe. There’s still one way I know on making DataMapper work, but I’m not sure if it will cause errors though..

Hopefully, I’m going to start the programming by next week. Since I’m going to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu.

By: rogelio

rogelio — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:02:16 +0000

I like the shading and also the hair it’s kinda small though, the bao-bao that is.

Hehe, I thought that you wouldn’t like Haruhi, cute isn’t?

Anyways, so you can’t use datamapper? So what are going to do?