Olivier Buxter wrote:
> I have the same issue on MAC, git install always fail silently.

(I assume you meant "Mac" [Macintosh], not "MAC" [media access card]. :) 
)

> Since I am new to ROR, this is very difficult for me to understand what 
> happens (or not).

Your issue has nothing to do with Rails.  Please read on.

[...]
> MAC OS 10.5.6
> macos:~$ sudo bash
> bash-3.2# gem install git
> Successfully installed git-1.0.5
> 1 gem installed
[...]
> bash-3.2# git
> bash: git: command not found
> 
> So it seems that the git gem is ''successfully'' installed but the git 
> command is not found.

Right.  The git gem is not the Git client.  The Git client is completely 
independent of Ruby; you will need to install it just the same way you'd 
install a Subversion or CVS client.

I'm not sure what the git gem does, but I would guess that it's simply 
some Ruby bindings for Git.

> Did I do something wrong ? Well I am not even sure 
> this is supposed to install a git command, but if I try to install a 
> plugin in a ROR project, I have the following which results in nothing 
> installed:
> 
> macos:project$ script/plugin --verbose install 
> git://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold.git -r rails-2.2

Yes, this will install nothing because you have no Git client installed. 
I think script/plugin should print an error message in this case, but 
unfortunately it doesn't.

[...]
> Any advice welcome,  meanwhile I'll keep trying manual install of 
> zip/tgz ...

Install an actual Git client.  Problem solved.

The situation is analogous to the situation with DBs: there are gems 
with Ruby bindings for mySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., but you need to install 
the DB software separately.  Git integration works the same way.
> 
> Olivier.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
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