FreeBSD 7 and Rails: undefined method `camelize' for "app":String

Okay, thought it was about time I had Rails installed on one of my FreeBSD boxes. So off to ports I trundle, two seconds later and I have Rails installed. Right time for a quick test app:

[]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-04-08 patchlevel 160) [amd64-freebsd7]
[]$ rails -v
Rails 2.3.4
[]$ gem -v
1.3.5
[]$ rails test
undefined method `camelize' for "app":String

What - an error! But this is FreeBSD, everything just works! (well mostly). Okay looks rather like someone has missed out a dependency in the port. It would appear that Rails depends on the iconv libs: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/converters/ruby-iconv/ so a:

cd /usr/ports/convertors/ruby-iconv
make install clean

is required, then Rails works.

Written on 26 Sep 2009 and categorised in FreeBSD and Rails, tagged as iconv

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