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Awdesh

I have similar issue running bundle install

bundle install
Your Ruby version is 2.0.0, but your Gemfile specified 2.5.1

only have Ruby 2.5.1 installed.

 ~/.rbenv/versions
❯ ls
2.5.1

I have tried restarting terminal and machine both just to clear cache if there's any.

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rhymes

Did you set 2.5.1 as the global version?

According to karloespiritu.github.io/cheatsheet... you need to type: rbenv global 2.5.1, otherwise it uses the default version shipped with the OS

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Awdesh

Thanks for the cheatsheet. Yes, I have tried rbenv global 2.5.1.

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rhymes

When you are in the directory of the project, what does rbenv version say?

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Awdesh

rbenv version
2.5.1 (set by /Users/awdesh/Documents/source/sandbox/dev.to/.ruby-version)

I feel like something is messed up with the /etc/paths/ although can't seem to figure it out. I am following this link here-: stackoverflow.com/questions/873067...

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

What's the output of ruby -v compared to rbenv version?

Try running rbenv shell 2.5.1 and then running bundle.

If not, a reinstall of 2.5.1 might help:

rbenv uninstall 2.5.1
# restart terminal
rbenv install 2.5.1
# install complete; restart terminal
ruby -v
#=> ruby -v version
rbenv version
#=> rbenv version

Let me know how it goes!

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Awdesh • Edited

Thanks Andy. I did a reinstall of rbenv and ran below.

❯ ruby -v

ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-darwin15]

❯ rbenv version
2.5.1 (set by RBENV_VERSION environment variable)

❯ rbenv shell 2.5.1

still see the same issue.

❯ bundle install
Your Ruby version is 2.0.0, but your Gemfile specified 2.5.1

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Ah, your bundle install might be running from your old Ruby version as opposed to the latest one.

Try running which gem and which bundle. You should be seeing something similar to this output:

which gem
#=> /Users/username/.rbenv/shims/gem
:which ruby
#=> /Users/username/.rbenv/shims/ruby
:which bundle
#=> /Users/username/.rbenv/shims/bundle

If it's different, you'll probably see that bundle or gem are running from different paths than ruby.

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Awdesh • Edited

That did it. Thanks for the tip.

gem and ruby paths were same but bundle. I updated the PATH for bundle gem file using BUNDLE_GEMFILE

export BUNDLE_GEMFILE=/Users/awdesh/.rbenv/shims/bundle

restarted terminal

bundle install  #worked.
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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Awesome! Glad to know it worked. From my experience, it's "cleaner" to reinstall your gems per version, but I'm not too sure if it matters too much.

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Hey, I am currently working on some night mode bugs and my work mainly works on editing scss/css files,
nevertheless I want to run a local setup of the application in an attempt to check the changes I am making.
I am having the same error as above only that dev.to required ruby version 2.6.1 but it seems to be picking up 2.3.7 from my system macOS
I have followed all the steps but to no use, I have little to no experience in ruby. could use your help in the same.

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Steve Morris

I don't have a ton of ruby experience so I actually ran into what I thought was a problem installing ruby with rbenv. I just wanted to share my experience here in case others run into the same issue.

I started by installing rbenv with homebrew.

~ $ brew install rbenv

No issues, cool. Then I went to install the current ruby version of 2.6.1 in rbenv but it kept hanging on the following line.

~ $ rbenv install 2.6.1
ruby-build: use openssl from homebrew
Downloading ruby-2.6.1.tar.bz2...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.1.tar.bz2
Installing ruby-2.6.1...
ruby-build: use readline from homebrew

I kept canceling out of it thinking it was stuck but it was actually building in the background. The installer could use some work giving users some sort of visual feedback that it's actually building. I looked it up and stumbled on to a GitHub issue about it: github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/issues...

One of the comments mentioned that you can actually use the install -v flag when installing with rbenv to get a verbose output of the build process in your terminal. I then ran the following:

~ $ rbenv install -v 2.6.1

And no more hanging on readline! It will fill your terminal window with build logs but at least you know it's working.

Hope this helps someone!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Great tip, thanks!

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Dustin King • Edited

Here's something I ran into as I'm going through the setup instructions, in case anyone else has the same problem.

When I did gem install bundler, I got this error message:

Fetching: bundler-1.16.5.gem (100%)
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
    You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0 directory.

It might have occurred because I uninstalled rvm (using rvm implode ) after installing rbenv.

The fix (found here ) was to add eval "$(rbenv init -)" to my .bash_profile (then do source ~/.bash_profile). After that gem install bundler worked.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

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Mohammed Abunada

I found the solution in this site
usabilityetc.com/articles/ruby-on-...

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Belverus

I can't explain how helpful this is. You saved me from a great amount of trouble. Thank you!

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Peter Kim Frank

Hey Tristan, definitely not a stupid question :)

It's probably a bit early to realistically stand up a fully self-hosted instance of DEV.

If your company is sharing technical content that is for public consumption, you're welcome to set up an organization account on the production site. You can look at Heroku as an example. You never know what might help other users.

@ben will follow up with a bit more info and context.

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, org accounts are the recommended way to go right now, but the instance direction is something we could start working on right away, as long as we’re willing to be patient along the way.

So that area has to be thought of as really theoretical at this point, but being an early adopter of that path could be very powerful, so you are welcome to volunteer to become part of our early group who might start thinking about that use case. Let me know if you’d like me to keep you in the loop.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Does anyone know how to update the built-in version of ruby on Mac?

➜  ~ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]
➜  ~ /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.5.1/bin/ruby -v
ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-darwin17]

I ended up getting around it by using RubyMine and telling it to use the brew version for the dev.to environment, and then I set up the bin scripts as run configurations.

Since I had ruby 2.5.1 installed, I wasn't terribly inclined to download RVM just so it could download its own version of ruby, too. I just don't think this was the most optimal way of fixing my version issues.

(And as someone who never used postgressql before, that part was not intuative at all... but I have no clue how to fix that in the docs, since I was bumbling my way through it)

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rhymes

I use RVM because I have different projects using different versions of Ruby and it's useful for that:

➜  ~ rvm list
   ruby-2.3.0 [ x86_64 ]
   ruby-2.4.3 [ x86_64 ]
=* ruby-2.5.1 [ x86_64 ]

# => - current
# =* - current && default
#  * - default

(And as someone who never used postgressql before, that part was not intuative at all... but I have no clue how to fix that in the docs, since I was bumbling my way through it)

Can you please articulate what issues did you have? I think it's very important because a difficult onboarding can be a turn off for first contributors. Thank you!

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ItsASine (Kayla)

My issue was trying to figure out how to articulate it late at night ;)

I think the issues started with completely blowing past the hey you need to install this stuff first section of the README and just starting to get the local build working with stuff like api keys and bundle install. And since I was having issues with the ruby version, I was inclined to think all my issues were around ruby rather than the db.

The biggest thing after needing it installed was needing to have it run before running anything. The installation was lumped with installing things like bundle and yarn which are more hands-off, so it wasn't clear that after installing the prereqs, I should actually start the db and that it wasn't handled in the bin scripts like everything else.

Then I wanted to actually see what was in the db, so I hunted through the configs and internet to see how to find the settings of the db that's created to connect to it within RubyMine.

It wasn't anything really hard or missing, just stuff that wasn't obvious as someone not in the stack.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

(And as someone who never used postgressql before, that part was not intuative at all...

Ah gotcha, we'll shore that up for the next iteration. What sort of issues are you having right now with it?

Does anyone know how to update the built-in version of ruby on Mac?

Are you using a Ruby version manager? You probably have rbenv or rvm installed.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Are you using a Ruby version manager?

As far as I know, I have not because I'm not a Rubyish person, but I can check once I get home. I knew I brew installed it and would have installed it way back when for brew (since I'm pretty sure brew runs on ruby) but otherwise I don't recall ever doing anything with ruby.

What sort of issues are you having right now with it?

Right now, nothing, since I was eventually able to get local dev.to up and running to get my screenshots for my PR :) Originally, though, since I was only installing it to use dev.to, I didn't:

  1. have it installed (ended up installing it outside of the recommended path since I was trying to solve ruby errors rather than continue reading the readme and find what I skipped over)
  2. have it running (lots of googling eventually found me to where a blog somewhere listed the command to run it)
  3. or how to access it (I loved the seed data scripts but wanted to add a user with specific data to hit my cases... I ended up setting up Github integration to use myself, but eventually figured out how to list known databases and then I could use RubyMine's built-in db handling to modify local data)

Like, reading the section of hey install this stuff didn't really click with me to actually run the database and that it was not a part of the bin scripts.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Ah gotcha, sorry that wasn't clear! We'll definitely update the instructions for the prerequisites.

And yep, let me know if you still have issues with your Ruby, or anything else really. 🙂

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Stephanie

I'm getting the following error when running bin/setup:

== Preparing database ==
rails aborted!
The following environment variables should be set: ALGOLIASEARCH_API_KEY, ALGOLIASEARCH_APPLICATION_ID, ALGOLIASEARCH_SEARCH_ONLY_KEY.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/envied-0.9.1/lib/envied.rb:38:in `error_on_missing_variables!'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/envied-0.9.1/lib/envied.rb:19:in `require'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/config/application.rb:12:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/Rakefile:4:in `require'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/Rakefile:4:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands/rake/rake_command.rb:20:in `block in perform'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands/rake/rake_command.rb:18:in `perform'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command.rb:46:in `invoke'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/bin/rails:9:in `require'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/bin/rails:9:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:28:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:28:in `call'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client.rb:30:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/bin/spring:49:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/binstub.rb:31:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/binstub.rb:31:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/Stephanie/Documents/Github/dev.to/bin/spring:15:in `<top (required)>'
bin/rails:3:in `load'
bin/rails:3:in `<main>'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

== Command ["bin/rails db:setup"] failed ==

But I already added the Algolia keys to config/application.yml:

ALGOLIASEARCH_API_KEY: "myKey"
ALGOLIASEARCH_APPLICATION_ID: "myKey"
ALGOLIASEARCH_SEARCH_ONLY_KEY: "myKey"

It seems like the ENV variables aren't being set, despite changing application.yml. I'm not sure what I'm missing.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hm that's strange. Try these two things:

  1. You're probably doing this correctly already, but make sure you're setting the keys in config/application.yml and not sample_application.yml.
  2. You might be running into a spring error, which is a Rails app preloader. If spring is running, it'll run bin commands for you, but sometimes doesn't refresh when you change things like environment variables. Try turning it off with spring stop and then running bin/setup again.
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Stephanie

Spring wasn't actually running, but I figured out what the issue was.

When I ran git status, it seemed like I accidentally made some changes to config/application.rb. I undid those changes and now bin/setup works.

Thanks for trying to help though!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Great! Glad it's resolved :)

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M Bellucci • Edited

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to write specs for login/signup procedure.
I've inspected the code and came out with these potential scenarios.
Can someone help me to correct, validate, refine these scenarios to met the reality?
(I follow the format ---> )

1 User never login before

create new user
create new identity
update user data
create session
go to welcome page

2 User second login with same provider

find existing user
find existing identity
update user data
create session
go to dashboard

3 User second login with other provider

find existing user
create new identity
update user data
create session
go to dashboard

4 User revoked authorization on twitter, login and re-authorizes

find existing user
find existing identity
update user data
create session
go to dashboard
Error cases ——

5 Twitter doesn’t provide enough information for the user (let’s say uid is nil)

don't create session
go to back to same page
display error message Twitter authorization problem. Try again later

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Yep, that sounds right. We have a feature test for Twitter auth /spec/features/user_logs_in_with_twitter_spec.rb and some other tests for registration in spec/models/user_spec.rb#270. Those should be helpful for see what else would need coverage.

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M Bellucci

Awesome thanks I'll take a look.

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M Bellucci

@ben ^ ?

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Ben Halpern

That seems like the right path. @andy can provide more thoughts

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Carly Ho 🌈

Hello! I was successfully able to run bin/setup and bin/startup does work and spin up the server, but when I go to the localhost port it tells me, I get a Cannot GET / error. All routes seem to be doing this. Anyone had this problem before? Do I need to input any keys above and beyond the Algolia ones to get the base site to work?

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hmm, not sure what that's about. Do you have another server that's connected to localhost:3000? Although if you do, you wouldn't have been able to start up the server.

Could you drop a screenshot of the browser on localhost:3000 and maybe a snippet of the server logs?

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Andy Zhao (he/him) • Edited

OH I think I know what it is. You might have went to localhost:3035 which is running Webpack. It might not be exactly 3035, but it's something similar and is not localhost:3000. localhost:3000 is the port for the backend Rails server, which is the one you want to visit.

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Carly Ho 🌈

Also, now that I've got it set up, props to whoever on your team likes this book:
to say nothing of the dog

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Carly Ho 🌈

oh wait, there we go! I think I did have something else running on 3000—not surprising, since I am always running like five development servers, but I should have double-checked that port was open. Thanks!

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Jibran Kalia • Edited

When running bin/setup I get the following error:

"2/8 Creating Users"
rails aborted!
Algolia::AlgoliaProtocolError: Cannot reach any host: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (1916c2b24231d12082a54f9c2f29efa2.algolia.net:443), getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (1916c2b24231d12082a54f9c2f29efa2-1.algolianet.com:443), getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (1916c2b24231d12082a54f9c2f29efa2-2.algolianet.com:443), getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known (1916c2b24231d12082a54f9c2f29efa2-3.algolianet.com:443)
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-1.19.1/lib/algolia/client.rb:417:in `request'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-1.19.1/lib/algolia/client.rb:429:in `put'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-1.19.1/lib/algolia/index.rb:516:in `set_settings'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:286:in `block (3 levels) in <class:SafeIndex>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:321:in `log_or_throw'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:285:in `block (2 levels) in <class:SafeIndex>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:752:in `algolia_ensure_init'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:595:in `block in algolia_clear_index!'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:593:in `each'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/algoliasearch-rails-1.20.4/lib/algoliasearch-rails.rb:593:in `algolia_clear_index!'
/Users/jibrankalia/side/dev.to/db/seeds.rb:26:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `load'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `block in load'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:258:in `load_dependency'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activesupport-5.1.6/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:286:in `load'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/engine.rb:549:in `load_seed'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activerecord-5.1.6/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb:270:in `load_seed'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/activerecord-5.1.6/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:184:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/airbrake-5.8.1/lib/airbrake/rake/task_ext.rb:19:in `execute'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands/rake/rake_command.rb:21:in `block in perform'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands/rake/rake_command.rb:18:in `perform'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/command.rb:46:in `invoke'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/railties-5.1.6/lib/rails/commands.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/side/dev.to/bin/rails:9:in `require'
/Users/jibrankalia/side/dev.to/bin/rails:9:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:28:in `load'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:28:in `call'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/client.rb:30:in `run'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/bin/spring:49:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/binstub.rb:31:in `load'
/Users/jibrankalia/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.1/gems/spring-2.0.2/lib/spring/binstub.rb:31:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/jibrankalia/side/dev.to/bin/spring:15:in `<top (required)>'
bin/rails:3:in `load'
bin/rails:3:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:setup => db:seed

Not sure what to do from here.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hey Jibran, looks like you have some error with Algolia. You'll need Algolia API keys in order to run the local server on your machine. See our guide here on how to get it: docs.dev.to/get-api-keys-dev-env/

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Jibran Kalia

Hey Andy,

Got it to work. Silly setup error on my part. Thanks!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Gotcha :) Glad it's working!

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Michelle Brien • Edited

Hello,

Trying to setup locally on my machine but running into an error after running bin/setup

"1/8 Creating Organizations"
"2/8 Creating Users"
rails aborted!
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Profile image could not download file: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed (unable to get local issuer certificate)

Has anyone else come across this before as finding it tricky to debug?

The console also throws this error at end of log

== Command ["bin/rails db:setup"] failed ==

So seems like db issues.. is there anything specific I need to do to set this up? I've just been following the installation steps where it only mentions to have postgresql 9.4 or higher (which I have)

Thanks for any help in advance!

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Andy Zhao (he/him) • Edited

Oh that's a strange error. I can't seem to reproduce it, but I think it might be something with the profile_image_url we're using. It's currently randomly generated by a gem, but feel free to replace it with any other valid image. The only non-standard validation we have for images is that its dimensions have to be less than or equal to 4096x4096.

You can replace line #31 in the seeds.rb file with any URL you'd like:

# current version
remote_profile_image_url: Faker::Avatar.image(nil, "300x300", "png", "set2", "bg2")

# change to anything, like your own dev.to profile pic:
remote_profile_image_url: "https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/user/profile_image/104515/87d99338-e340-4642-8393-e3731deb5b97.jpg"

# or use random Bill Murray images with 400x400 size:
remote_profile_image_url: Faker::Fillmurray.image(false, 400, 400)

Faker::Fillmurray docs here, if you're so inclined. 😇

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Michelle Brien

Thank you!

Yes that was it, I've now been able to get running using my own profile pic. As happy as I am that it's working now am quite sad I've not been able to use the Bill Murray Faker... 😂

For info I was getting a 'redirect' error

ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Profile avatar could not download file: redirection forbidden:

...which seemed like it was expecting https in the url, but I couldn't find an easy way to resolve this.

But all good with a non-Faker url for the profile image 👍

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Awesome, glad it worked! Unfortunate about Bill Murray 🙃

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