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Rails on Synology CubeStation CS-406

November 24th, 2006

Preparing for my workshop

Enable Telnet Access

see Oinkzwurgels page, download ‘syno-telnet-r3.zip’ and install it in the Synology Web Admin panel. The installation will stop at 99% – that’s fine

Now you can telnet to the CubeStation:

$ telnet 192.168.x.y
CubeStation login: admin
Password: 

BusyBox v1.1.0 (2006.08.06-13:52+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

CubeStation> ls

You can login as any user you created. For the following steps, login as root (same password as your admin account)

Bingo!

install the ipgk stuff

Again – from Oinkzwrurgels document:

CubeStation> cd /tmp
CubeStation> wget http://oinkzwurgl.org/dl.php?file=bootstrap-ppc.tar.gz
...
CubeStation> cd /
CubeStation> tar -xzvf /tmp/bootstrap-ppc.tar.gz 
...
CubeStation> ln -s /volume1/opt /opt
CubeStation> export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH
CubeStation> /opt/bin/ipkg update
CubeStation> /opt/bin/ipkg upgrade

More software

CubeStation> /opt/bin/ipkg list | grep ruby                                                                                                                         
ruby - 1.8.5-1 - An interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
rubygems - 0.9.0-1 - Ruby packaging and installation framework.

CubeStation> ipkg install zlib
CubeStation> ipkg install ruby
CubeStation> ipkg install rubygems

I then installed the native toolchain as described on Oinkzwurgels pages

CubeStation> ipkg install make

Rails?

CubeStation> gem install rails --include-dependencies

Prepare a cup of coffee and wait. Get some more coffee. Do some chores. Go to sleep.

Update /root/.profile so that the PATH is set to include /opt/local/bin

Here’s my current:

#/etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for ash.
PATH="$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/syno/bin:/usr/syno/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin"
umask 022
#This fixes the backspace when telnetting in.
#if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ]; then
#        stty erase
#fi
export PATH
HOME=/root
export HOME
TERM=${TERM:-cons25}
export TERM
PAGER=more
export PAGER
PS1="`hostname`> "
alias dir="ls -al"
export CFLAGS="/opt/include:/opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.3/powerpc-603-linux-gnu/powerpc-603-linux-gnu/include"
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/lib"
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.3/powerpc-603-linux-gnu/bin/"
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/local/bin"

Let’s try it:

CubeStation> mkdir -p /volume1/test
CubeStation> cd /volume1/test
CubeStation> rails cube
...

If all goes well, the rails command should create the directory structure for a project.

CubeStation> cd cube
CubeStation> ruby script/server

starts Webrick and you can access your page through the webbrowser at http://192.168.x.y:3000

Tata.

Mongrel

So far I haven’t been able to install mongrel. The compilation fails because of

wrong paths in makefile (fixable)
missing syslimits.h header file (haven’t been able to track that down yet)

Next steps

Getting a real application with database access up and running

More software?

Oh yes – the NLSU2 page has more packages. So far I have installed:

mt-daap – the iTunes server
openSSH – no telnet for me, thanks

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10 Comments Add your own

1. Smick | December 1st, 2006 at 06:25

Question/suggestion: Why not use “localhost:3000″ or “127.0.0.1:3000″ in your instructions vs. “192.168.x.y”? It’d be one less thing for somebody to futz up! :)
2. Administrator | December 1st, 2006 at 07:10

Because you are not accessing the Rails application from the same machine. Your browser is running on your computer, Rails is running on the Synology computer. Localhost:3000 would point to the same computer, the browser is on – and that’s not what you want in this case.
3. Smick | December 1st, 2006 at 17:02

See? This is normally why I keep my mouth shut. ;)
4. Administrator | December 2nd, 2006 at 12:51

na – wrong approach. You learnt something by opening your mouth :-)
5. tracks | January 9th, 2007 at 12:17

can you install tracks for free gtd? and if yes can you tell us, mortals, how to do it. thanks…

http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/articles/comments/linking-actions-and-yojimbo-items/
6. Martin | December 7th, 2007 at 16:12

Hallo, ich bin auf der Suche nach einem NAS und mÃ¶chte gleichzeitig Ruby On Rails kennen lernen – mir scheint ich habe die richtige Seite/Person gefunden… Meine Fragen: Ist dies (Ruby) auch mit einer 207 o.Ã¤. mÃ¶glich, oder nur auf die 406 beschrÃ¤nkt? Ist es grundsÃ¤tzlich mÃ¶glich, auf einem NAS (z.B. QNAP, Thecus) mit Linux ROR zu installieren? Oder ist Synology eine Ausnahme?

Freundliche GrÃ¼sse
Martin
7. Administrator | December 7th, 2007 at 16:34

GrundsÃ¤tzlich ist das sicher auf einer 207 mÃ¶glich… Ich wÃ¼rde aber eine + empfehlen: schnellerer Prozessor & mehr Speicher.

Wenn Du eine funktionierende Toolchain (Compiler, Linker, etc) hast, dann sollte das auf jedem Linux funktionieren…
8. Richard | April 13th, 2008 at 18:28

Awesome, thanks for this. I tried starting

gem install rails –include-dependencies

but obviously, you weren’t kidding about the going to sleep part! I had to stop the process as it was making hickups in music played from our CS407.. I guess this part of the installation takes a lot of resources.

Anyway, I’ll run the procedure overnight and try to go from there. Have you run into any problems building apps yet?
9. Richard | April 14th, 2008 at 15:39

I ran into some problems on my CS407. The gem install process stopped with some errors. This was solved by performing a gem update, then upgrade, then reinstalling rails.

Other than that, rails seems to be working fine — although I am getting some strange errors from ActiveScaffold (ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in XController#show — error message Couldn’t find Entry with ID=update_table).
10. Arjan van Bentem | May 1st, 2008 at 16:46

@Richard,

I assume you first generated a full “normal” scaffold (rather than
only a model)? That will have put a line like
```
map.resources :x
```
in your config/routes.rb. Remove that, and you’ll be fine.

Arjan.
11. Mark | January 12th, 2010 at 21:04

Have you ever had any luck getting this to run on a modern Synology system?

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