Guard not detecting file changes until I interact with terminal - ruby

I'm trying to get Guard to detect file system changes while I'm working with SASS files. I want them to be compiled to CSS. I don't want to interact with the terminal every time I make a change though. It should just happen automatically. Right now, I have to press enter at the terminal to get it to compile.
When I do gem query --loacl I get this:
coderay (1.0.9)
ffi (1.8.1)
formatador (0.2.4)
guard (1.8.0)
guard-sass (1.1.0)
listen (1.0.3)
lumberjack (1.0.3)
method_source (0.8.1)
pry (0.9.12.1)
rb-fsevent (0.9.3)
rb-inotify (0.9.0)
rb-kqueue (0.2.0)
sass (3.2.9, 3.2.8)
slop (3.4.4)
thor (0.18.1)
I should note that this will eventually be a guard init on a Samba share; the directory is not on my physical machine, but I am testing on my local hard drive.
To initialize the guard project, I did guard init and then guard on my 'Portfolio' directory. This my directory structure:
-- Portfolio
-- sass
-- css
-- Guardfile (file)
And this is the contents of my guard file:
# A sample Guardfile
# More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme
guard 'sass', :input => 'sass', :output => 'css'
I read something about Ruby being compiled against libedit instead of readline. How can I check if this is the issue?

It appears the issue was in fact that Ruby wasn't using readline. I am not a Ruby expert, so I don't know for sure if this was the issue or not. I did follow the directions here and installed the Ruby Version Manager (RVM) and reinstalled Ruby to version 1.9.3 (although I think I could have used the latest 2.0.0) and I reinstalled the guard and guard-sass gems and now my filesystem changes are being detected automatically.

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How do I include a commit in a ruby library that hasn't been added to the gem yet?

Specifically, this commit has been merged into mongomapper master to fix a bug that is causing my application to crash:
https://github.com/mongomapper/mongomapper/pull/572
However, it hasn't been released in a new gem. Is it possible to include it prematurely or do I have to wait until it's released? I'm on heroku with a Gemfile.lock that specifies version.
My gemfile.lock currently reads:
mongo_mapper (0.13.0)
activemodel (>= 3.0.0)
activesupport (>= 3.0)
mongo (~> 1.8)
plucky (~> 0.6.5)
I don't know about Heroku, but if you want to use a git version of a gem that is not on Rubygems yet, you must add the git path to your Gemfile.
In your Gemfile change:
gem 'mongomapper'
To:
gem 'mongomapper', :git => 'https://github.com/mongomapper/mongomapper.git'
Or if you're on a more modern ruby, you can also use:
gem 'mongomapper', github: 'mongomapper/mongomapper'
And of course after that you must run bundle install or bundle update mongomapper.
Since the Ruby code isn't compiled, if you have the notes for that patch you can always manually add those changes to the lib directory of the mongomapper gem, although I can't advise against this enough - it's undesirable to change the source code, especially underneath an installed gem.
Once you go down this road you can't really count on any support for related issues until you are updated to a newer version or reverted to the original files.

Ruby Builder conflict

I have a small ruby app that has been working. I am now getting a conflict error with builder. It looks like I updated my gems and now it is conflicting. I have it set in the Gemfile to use v2.1.2. But that is not working either. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Gemfile
gem 'builder', '2.1.2'
Bundler output
$ bundle
Using builder (2.1.2)
Using bundler (1.2.3)
$ bundle show builder
/Users/covard/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/builder-2.1.2
Conflict message
`raise_if_conflicts': Unable to activate actionpack-3.2.11, because rack-1.5.0 conflicts with rack (~> 1.4.0), builder-3.1.4 conflicts with builder (~> 3.0.0) (Gem::LoadError)
Figured out what my problem was even though I had my Gemfile I wasn't using it. Since rails handles that automatically I didn't know I had to add a require to use it. After adding this to my ruby files it worked perfectly.
require "bundler/setup"

Building gems with jRuby cext on Heroku

I am trying to use the JRuby Heroku buildpack (https://github.com/jruby/heroku-buildpack-jruby) to run a simple test application.
However, it seems that gems with C extensions cannot be compiled. For example, when doing a "git push heroku", the gems without C extensions are installed successfully, but then...
Using activerecord (3.1.3)
Using activeresource (3.1.3)
Using bouncy-castle-java (1.5.0146.1)
Using bson (1.7.0)
Installing bson_ext (1.7.0) with native extensions
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/tmp/build_10vcxrs9ayvxf/jruby/bin/jruby extconf.rb
NotImplementedError: C extension support is not enabled. Pass -Xcext.enabled=true to JRuby or set JRUBY_OPTS or modify .jrubyrc to enable.
(root) at /tmp/build_10vcxrs9ayvxf/jruby/lib/ruby/shared/mkmf.rb:8
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1019
(root) at /tmp/build_10vcxrs9ayvxf/jruby/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/custom_require.rb:1
(root) at extconf.rb:1
Gem files will remain installed in /tmp/build_10vcxrs9ayvxf/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/bson_ext-1.7.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /tmp/build_10vcxrs9ayvxf/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/bson_ext-1.7.0/ext/cbson/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing bson_ext (1.7.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install bson_ext -v '1.7.0'` succeeds before bundling.
Dependencies installed
Upon seeing the advice given above, I then went and created a modified version of the JRuby buildpack, which can be found here: https://github.com/grahamdaley/heroku-buildpack-jruby-cext
The only difference between this buildpack and the original one is that I have now set JRUBY_OPTS as follows:
JRUBY_OPTS="--1.9 -Xcext.enabled=true -J-Xmx400m"
However, this doesn't seem to have made any difference at all and I'm still getting the same error.
Any hints? Is it possible (and would help) to add a .jrubyrc file somewhere in the buildpack?
you should simply configure JRUBY_OPTS instead of a setting up a customized build-pack :
heroku config:add JRUBY_OPTS="--1.9 -Xcext.enabled=true -J-Xmx400m"
that being said - it's probably a bad idea to use C-ext with JRuby
you definitely do not need C-ext due to BSON gem (it has a native JRuby version) - editing your Gemfile and/or re-bundling (rm Gemfile.lock && bundle) locally with JRuby will likely solve this for you ...
Install without C extention
On way is just install json without the C extension. Is possible because the C extension is optional. Attention this is slower than bson with C extension this is may a problem for you. source
Ruby — with optional C extension
Open a Ticket
Almost any gem - even those with native dependencies - can be installed using Bundler. If there’s a specific gem that won’t install on Heroku, please submit a support ticket.
So you can open a support ticket here

Twitter entities no longer recognized in ruby script

I have a ruby script that scans each type of entity in a given tweet:
status = Twitter::Client.new.status(tweet[:id_str], {:include_entities => "1"})
status[:entities].each do |x|
#job on the entity
end
It was doing good until yesterday. Now I get NoMethodError: undefined method 'entities' for #<Twitter::Status:0x000001033e1800>
I can't figure it out since I've checked that status does include entities after the first line.
Any clues?
EDIT: turns out it's the new version of the twitter gem (v2.0.0) which is in cause. First I'd like to downgrade it to the last version working (v1.7.2), but I'm getting an annoying gem version error:
Bundler could not find compatible versions for gem "hashie":
In Gemfile:
topsy (~> 0.3.6) depends on
hashie (~> 1.0.0)
twitter (= 1.7.2) depends on
hashie (1.1.0)
How can I work it out?
If you need specific gem's version, you can forcely set it throught Gemfile:
gem "rack", "1.0.1"
gem "rails", ">=2.3.2"
In the end it was a conflict in the Gemfile:
gem 'topsy', '~> 0.3.6'
gem 'twitter', '1.7.2'
were requesting different versions of hashie, so I just deleted the version of topsy and it worked.

Firewatir: Firewatir is not opening Firefox

FireWatir
I recently started using Firewatir for testing, I followed all the required steps while installing firewatir but I am not able to run the script.
Here is the information from my local machine
ruby version: ruby 1.9.1p429 (2010-07-02 revision 28523) [i386-mingw32]
gems installed:
C:>gem list
* LOCAL GEMS *
activesupport (3.0.0, 2.3.8)
builder (2.1.2)
commonwatir (1.6.5)
firewatir (1.6.5)
hoe (2.6.2)
json_pure (1.4.6)
rake (0.8.7)
rubyforge (2.0.4)
s4t-utils (1.0.4)
user-choices (1.1.6.1)
xml-simple (1.0.12)
########I used the sample script from the web
#Include the FireWatir file.
require 'firewatir'
ff=FireWatir::Firefox.new
#Open yahoo mail.
ff.goto("http://mail.yahoo.com")
#Put your user name.
ff.text_field(:name,"login").set("User_Name")
#Put your password.
ff.text_field(:name,"passwd").set("Password")
#Click Sign In button.
ff.button(:value,"Sign In").click
#Click Sign Out button.
ff.link(:text, "Sign Out").click
#Close the browser.
ff.close
When I run the above script from the command prompt, instead of opening the firefox browser, it is opening a dialog box to select a program to open this.
I really appreciate that if anyone can help me with this or point me to the right directions.
Thanks
I was able to resolve the issue,not sure exactly how but I followed the following steps:
1. Uninstall and install ruby
2. gem update
3. rolled back activesupport from version 3.0.0 to activesupport 2.3.8.
4. uninstalled JSSH and installed it again and that sure fixed the issue

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