Geeklets

Cant get this thing working, i keep getting this:

"ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)

HTTP Response 301 fetching http://gems.rubyforge.org/yam"

Everytime i want to install things-rb

and the .glet file doesnt show anything

Doesn't work.. Any help?

Why do developers complicate it?!! Harald Martin says installation instructions are "$ sudo gem install things-rb". Is that in Terminal? Nobody says. I have actually found as stated above that it should be "sudo gem install things-rb" in Terminal, but still no luck, I just get this:

ERROR: Error installing things-rb:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h

I foresee myself giving up on this due to frustration with the install process alone due to a lack of clear instructions.

Thanks! works great!

This geeklet stopped working when I upgraded to Lion; is it incompatible or am I just doing something wrong? I attempted to re-install but receive the following message when trying to install "things-rb":

>Building native extensions. This could take a while...

>ERROR: Error installing things-rb:

> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

>

>/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

>mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h

>

>Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.4 for inspection.

>Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.4/ext/fast_xs/gem_make.out

Any help would be greatly appreciated, your projects have made "Things" immeasurably more useful to me.

I can confirm I have it working on Lion, did you update ruby gems technogorilla?

Anybody? Throw a guy a rope...

### Martin Ström: Modern Genius

After all the difficulties, I finally gave in and sent a note direct to Martin in Stockholm. Not only did he reply, but he had a two-minute solution that fixed the "Failed to build gem native extension" problem above.

His solution:

>Without digging too much into the debugging, it seems like a problem

when compiling one of the libraries I'm using. Did you do a clean

install of Lion and not installing Xcode after? It needs developer

tools to compile. If you're not planning on installning XCode for

other reason, there's a stand alone version of the compiler which

should work:

>

I downloaded the installer and "poof" my Things items are back on my screen.

Martin, if you ever make it to NYC - first round is on me.

Ok. So I thought I'd share my experience here to assist others who, like me, had issues getting this up & running.

I'm on Lion 10.7.3 running GeekTool 3.0.3 and Things 1.5.4.

I kept getting errors when installing "things-rb" regardless of what I tried.

Although I had Xcode installed, the Xcode Command line tools (Xcode preferences/Downloads/Components) were not installed, so I rectified that and then ran "sudo gem install things-rb" and the install completed sucessfully!

I also downloaded homebrew and manually installed ruby via the command line using the command "brew install ruby" just prior to installing the Xcode cmd line tools, this may have resolved the situation, however I'm pretty sure it's the Xcode cmd line tools that was the missing link.

Either way, after weeks of faffing about with this, I now have my Things items on my desktop. Persistence is key!

- Happy Duncs

Things 2 is now out, and it uses a SQLITE database, so this doesn't work.

Take a look at:

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/productivity/things-beta/