My first ruby-based port

[Paul Schmehl]

--On November 13, 2012 7:48:23 PM -0500 Steve Wills <swills at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On 11/12/12 10:32, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I'm working on porting snorby.
>
> Great, glad to hear that!
>
>> It's a ruby rails application.  I've got
>> quite a bit sorted out, but I've run into a problem that has me stumped.
>
> Someone else was working on this but ran into an issue that I can't
> recall. Something to do with image libraries I think.
>
>> I'm copying the distro to ${PREFIX}/www/snorby and then running bundle
>> install, which is based on the author's instructions on installing the
>> app.
>
> Calling bundle install is probably not the way to go, for a number of
> reasons. Take a look at how other rubygem- ports are built.
>
>> The command runs but generates an error, and I'm not sure if this
>> is a missing ruby or rails dependency or what the cause might be.
>>
>> Here's the error message:
>>
>> cd /var/tmp/snorby/www/snorby && /usr/local/bin/bundle install
>> Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/.....
>> Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/..
>> Fetching http://github.com/Snorby/delayed_job_data_mapper.git
>> git: not found
>
> It's trying to call git to download what I guess is a fork of
> delayed_job_data_mapper. There's a port for delayed_job_data_mapper
> already I think. Fetching things from git respos without somehow
> verifying them is something we avoid.
>

I may have bitten off more than I can chew.  This stuff is greek to me.

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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