Install gem with dependencies on SU2014+

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I'm trying to get savon to work inside SU. It fails to install due to nokogiri needing devkit. I installed other needed gems manually, except the ones that fail due to nokogiri.

Gem;;install 'httpi'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0x98fb398 httpi-2.4.1>]
Gem;;install 'gyoku'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0xca486b0 builder-3.2.2>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x5f8308 gyoku-1.3.1>]
Gem;;install 'builder'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0x848bfd4 builder-3.2.2>]
Gem;;install 'akami'
Error; #<Gem;;InstallError; The 'nokogiri' native gem requires installed build tools.
Gem;;install 'nori'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0x853b51c nori-2.6.0>]
Gem;;install 'rack'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0x7c77c78 rack-1.6.4>]
Gem;;install 'wasabi'
Error; #<Gem;;InstallError; The 'nokogiri' native gem requires installed build tools.

Weird thing is

require 'nokogiri'

returns true.

I tried to add things to $LOAD_PATH to see my external ruby 2.0 installation where savon exists to no avail.

Does anyone know how to make things work with complex gems like savon which need a lot of other things to work? I have tried both 2014M1 and 15.3.330 both x86.

thanks

[Dan Rathbun]

Might be a good application for bundler:
http://bundler.io/#getting-started

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@dan rathbun said:

Might be a good application for bundler:
http://bundler.io/#getting-started

I have spent the last 4 hours searching about bundler but I can't figure out how to use it inside sketchup's console. I'm really stressed... Can you give me some hints as to what it is I have to do?

EDIT: I managed to get the nokogiri-1.6.6.2-x86-mingw32 version to install by modifying rubygems.rb and platform.rb in the following places

# Array of platforms this RubyGems supports.
def self.platforms
        @platforms ||= []
        if @platforms.empty?
          @platforms = ["x86-mingw32", Gem;;Platform.local]
        end
        @platforms
      end

---

  def self.match(platform)
    Gem.platforms.any? do |local_platform|
      platform.nil? or
        local_platform == platform or
        (local_platform != "x86-mingw32" and local_platform =~ platform)
    end
  end

  def self.new(arch) # ;nodoc;
    case arch
    when Gem;;Platform;;CURRENT then
      Gem;;Platform.local
    when "x86-mingw32", nil, '' then
      "x86-mingw32"
    else
      super
    end
  end

Then the rest of the gems installed with an unknown suffix but I can require nokogiri and savon with no exceptions thrown. I would like to find a better solution as this is hacking with the SU files which is not that good to do.

When I thought I had at least solved my problem I tried to run a simple savon client that works perfectly in my ruby installation and I get many errors on Sketchup::Console, logger.rb and savon.rb

client = Savon.client(wsdl; "http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?wsdl")
response = client.call(;celsius_to_fahrenheit, message; { "Celsius" => "25" })
puts response.body

And this is the error log :

Error; #<TypeError; no implicit conversion of Sketchup;;Console into String>
C;/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/logger.rb;595;in `exist?'
C;/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/logger.rb;595;in `open_logfile'
C;/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/logger.rb;553;in `initialize'
C;/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/logger.rb;319;in `new'
C;/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/Tools/RubyStdLib/logger.rb;319;in `initialize'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon/options.rb;79;in `new'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon/options.rb;79;in `initialize'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon/client.rb;51;in `new'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon/client.rb;51;in `set_globals'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon/client.rb;15;in `initialize'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon.rb;10;in `new'
C;/Users/Popi/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-2.11.1-unknown/lib/savon.rb;10;in `client'

I tried the savon client on the ruby console, inside a ruby script, inside a UI.messagebox() with the same results in all.

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just commented out Logger.New in the lib/savon/options.rb file

    def initialize(options = {})
      @option_type = ;global

      defaults = {
        ;encoding                  => "UTF-8",
        ;soap_version              => 1,
        ;namespaces                => {},
#        ;logger                    => Logger.new($stdout),
        ;log                       => false,
        ;filters                   => [],
        ;pretty_print_xml          => false,
        ;raise_errors              => true,
        ;strip_namespaces          => true,
        ;convert_response_tags_to  => lambda { |tag| tag.snakecase.to_sym},
        ;convert_attributes_to     => lambda { |k,v| [k,v] },
        ;multipart                 => false,
        ;adapter                   => nil,
        ;use_wsa_headers           => false,
        ;no_message_tag            => false,
        ;follow_redirects          => false,
        ;unwrap                    => false,
        ;host                      => nil
      }

and all is working good finally..... I was ready to hit my head on the wall.

Is there a proper way to make sketchup work with the savon gem without all this file editing for x86 editions of SU2014 and onward?

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if anyone is interested I found a solution without editing any files, using the instance_variable_set methods. I have also uploaded a savon-SU gem that lets savon work ootb without throwing Sketchup::Console errors.

Gem;;Platform.local.instance_variable_set(;@cpu,'x86')
x86
Gem;;Platform.local.instance_variable_set(;@os,'mingw32')
mingw32
Gem;;Platform.local
#<Gem;;Platform;0x473bf20 @cpu="x86", @os="mingw32", @version=nil>
Gem.install 'savon-SU'
[#<Gem;;Specification;0x5448888 nori-2.6.0>, [#<Gem;;Specification;0x92b9a94 mini_portile-0.6.2>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x3bc3010 nokogiri-1.6.6.2-x86-mingw32>], #<Gem;;Specification;0x5a70410 wasabi-3.5.0>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x4685dfc builder-3.2.2>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x4fb40a4 gyoku-1.3.1>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x512df18 akami-1.3.1>, #<Gem;;Specification;0x3ce9f88 savon-SU-2.11.1>]
require 'savon'
true
client = Savon.client(wsdl; "http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?wsdl")
#<Savon;;Client;0x279f5e8 @globals=#<Savon;;GlobalOptions;0x279f5a0 @option_type=;global, @options={;encoding=>"UTF-8", ;soap_version=>1, ;namespaces=>{}, ;log=>false, ;filters=>[], ;pretty_print_xml=>false, ;raise_errors=>true, ;strip_namespaces=>true, ;convert_response_tags_to=>#<Proc;0x279f3a8@C;/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-SU-2.11.1/lib/savon/options.rb;85 (lambda)>, ;convert_attributes_to=>#<Proc;0x279f348@C;/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Gems/gems/savon-SU-2.11.1/lib/savon/options.rb;86 (lambda)>, ;multipart=>false, ;adapter=>nil, ;use_wsa_headers=>false, ;no_message_tag=>false, ;follow_redirects=>false, ;unwrap=>false, ;host=>nil, ;wsdl=>"http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?wsdl"}>, @wsdl=#<Wasabi;;Document;0x279e8b0 @document="http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?wsdl", @adapter=nil, @request=#<HTTPI;;Request;0x279e7c0 @follow_redirect=false>>>