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  Ryan Bigg April 27th, 2010 @ 12:47 AM

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  Could you please post steps to reproduce and the error that it gives? Thanks.

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 03:19 AM

  First you have to custom-build ruby 1.9.1 using Visual Studio 8.

  Then using that copy, install it to a directory like:
  c:\checkouts\external\ruby

  Then run "gem.cmd update --system" to get the latest copy of rubygems.

  Then run "gem.cmd install rails"

  I'll cut-and-paste the exact error messages tomorrow for win32 and win64 (they are on my work computer).

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 02:54 PM

  ==win64 Here is an example to get an error in win64. Note: ruby handles this fine in win64, this is an external tool.

  Using cygwin's find:
  $ find . > /dev/null $ find: ./lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/activerecord-2.3.4/ri/ActiveRecord/HasManyThroughCantAssociateThroughHasOneOrManyReflection/cdesc-HasManyThroughCantAssociateThroughHasOneOrManyReflection.yaml': File name too long

  ==win32

  Whoops, I'm wrong about the filename for this one...this is from activesupport:
  ** Installing gem rails -v=2.3.4... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
  

  No such file or directory - ./I18nSimpleBackendInterpolateTest/test_interpolate_given_a_non_unicode_multibyte_value_hash_interpolates_into_a_string_with_the_same_encoding-i.yaml
  

  Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
  Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.4
  Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.4
  Successfully installed rack-1.0.1
  Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.4
  Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.4
  Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.4
  Successfully installed rails-2.3.4
  8 gems installed

  It returns a non-zero exit code when that is done and it doesn't install the docs, so the file above isn't shown as an issue (though I bet it is, I'll see if I can confirm it).

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 02:55 PM

  • Title changed from “ActiveRecord filename is too long for windows usage...” to “Active* filenames is too long for windows usage...”

  Fudge...can I edit

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 02:58 PM

  Try 2 -- Sorry, not used to bug systems that have formatting.

  win64

  Here is an example to get an error in win64. Note: ruby handles this fine in win64, this is an external tool.

  Using cygwin's find:

  $ find . > /dev/null $ find: ./lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/activerecord-2.3.4/ri/ActiveRecord/HasManyThroughCantAssociateThroughHasOneOrManyReflection/cdesc-HasManyThroughCantAssociateThroughHasOneOrManyReflection.yaml': File name too long
  

  win32

  Whoops, I'm wrong about the filename for this one...this is from activesupport:

  ** Installing gem rails -v=2.3.4... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
  No such file or directory - ./I18nSimpleBackendInterpolateTest/test_interpolate_given_a_non_unicode_multibyte_value_hash_interpolates_into_a_string_with_the_same_encoding-i.yaml
  Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
  Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.4
  Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.4
  Successfully installed rack-1.0.1
  Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.4
  Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.4
  Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.4
  Successfully installed rails-2.3.4
  8 gems installed
  

  It returns a non-zero exit code when that is done and it doesn't install the docs, so the file above isn't shown as an issue (though I bet it is, I'll see if I can confirm it).

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 05:04 PM

  Okay, trying to create the full path via Explorer:
  

  Directory:
  e:\checkouts\holtje\externals\rubygems\dists\1.9.1-v1\windows-i386\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\doc\activesupport-2.3.4\ri\I18nSimpleBackendInterpolateTest
  Filename:
  test_interpolate_given_a_non_unicode_multibyte_value_hash_interpolates_into_a_string_with_the_same_encoding-i.yaml
  

  I went into the directory with cygwin, and did a touch 't'. I then used explorer to try to rename the file.
  It claimed it did it, but it chopped off the last two characters 'ml'.

  I'm going to try moving everything up a couple directories. :-/

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 06:11 PM

  I can confirm that I can work around the win32 problem by changing the directory path to something shorter.

  I'll check the win64 problem shortly.

  This isn't a perfect fix for me, since I plan on shipping my pre-built ruby along with a rails application to customers... I would like it if it was less likely to have problems if they choose a long-ish path to install the product in.

  And it would still be good, for windows users and anyone who ever does a 'find', to shorten these insanely long paths.

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  The Doctor What April 27th, 2010 @ 08:24 PM

  So I still get these errors from other utilities, when running find, even though I've shortened the overall path significantly:

  find: ./lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/activesupport-2.3.4/ri/I18nSimpleBackendInterpolateTest/test_interpolate_given_an_unicode_value_hash_into_a_non_unicode_multibyte_string_raises_encoding_compatibility_error-i.yaml': File name too long<br/> find:./lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/activesupport-2.3.4/ri/I18nSimpleBackendInterpolateTest/test_interpolate_given_a_non_unicode_multibyte_value_hash_into_an_unicode_string_raises_encoding_compatibility_error-i.yaml': File name too long

  I would still suggest shortening these paths, if it all possible.

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  Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:43 PM

  • State changed from “needs-more-info” to “open”
  • Importance changed from “” to “Low”

  This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

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  Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:43 PM

  • State changed from “open” to “stale”