SproutCore Install Problems

There are a wide variety of operating systems and combinations of components out there that can give you problems when installing SproutCore. This page contains notes from others who have had trouble on how they resolved their issues. If you have trouble installing SproutCore, checkout this page for info on how others solved the problem. If you find a new problem and solve it, please add your solution here to benefit future developers!

Problem: /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require’: no such file to load —
activesupport (MissingSourceFile)

When you try to start SproutCore and get the above error, try installing activesupport by doing the following:

This happens most often on Mac OS X Leopard machines that were upgraded from Tiger.

The above command has also been known to resolve this error while installing on Mac OS X Leopard machines:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/rack-0.9.1.gem)

extconf.rb:1:in `require’: no such file to load — mkmf (LoadError)
from extconf.rb:1

Problem:

OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 which ships with Ruby 1.8.6. The solution is found at: http://www.geekmade.co.uk/2008/11/merb-10-install-errormerb-core-requires-rubygems-version-130/.

NB: Typing the following allowed me to install SproutCore in the normal fashion: