verify that an OS package is installed - ruby-on-rails

I need to verify that an OS package is installed after deploying using capistrano (it's a rails project, in case it matters). I'd like to support the major linux distros and OS X. Fortunately, the name of the package is the same on all platforms.
I've thought adding a capistrano task, something like (untested code):
%w(yum apt-get brew).each do |manager|
path = `which #{manager}`.chomp
if path && path.size > 0
`#{path} install -y #{PKG}`
return
end
end
Inspired by this question.
Is there a better way?
I've thought checking uname, but it doesn't always have the distro, just "Linux". I also thought using lsb_release or listing files in /etc/*-release, but not all distros support it (e.g. centos).

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Link hadoop installed with sdkman to brew

I installed hadoop with sdkman and now I'm trying to install Hive with homebrew but brew wants to install hadoop again because it doesn't know hadoop is already installed on my computer.
I use --ignore-dependencies flag as workaround but it's not a best practice.
Do you know how can I link my hadoop installation done with sdkman to brew?
It is not possible to use a non-Homebrew hadoop with Homebrew hive, see https://docs.brew.sh/Building-Against-Non-Homebrew-Dependencies
To improve quality and reduce variation, Homebrew now exclusively supports using the default formula, as an ordinary dependency, and no longer supports using arbitrary alternatives.
You will have to install Hive manually: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/hive/gettingstarted#GettingStarted-InstallingHivefromaStableRelease
Installing Hive from a Stable Release
Start by downloading the most recent stable release of Hive from one of the Apache download mirrors (see Hive Releases).
Next you need to unpack the tarball. This will result in the creation of a subdirectory named hive-x.y.z (where x.y.z is the release number):
$ tar -xzvf hive-x.y.z.tar.gz
Set the environment variable HIVE_HOME to point to the installation directory:
$ cd hive-x.y.z
$ export HIVE_HOME={{pwd}}
Finally, add $HIVE_HOME/bin to your PATH:
$ export PATH=$HIVE_HOME/bin:$PATH

asdf-erlang doesn't install man pages

I am using asdf + asdf-erlang as my version manager for Erlang. All seems to be working fine, except that typing erl -man mnesia results in No manual entry for mnesia.
I have installed all dependencies mentioned on the asdf-erlang github page. I have also installed xsltproc and fop. Unfortunately "man" folder located under ~/.asdf/installs/erlang/18.3/lib/erlang/erts-73/ is empty. I haven't found man pages being generated elsewhere.
I was trying to locate build log, but I was not successful with that either.
I am using 64bit Ubuntu 16.10 & 16.04.
OK. I finally managed to resolve the issue:
Go to https://www.erlang.org/downloads/ and download manpages for the version(s) of Erlang you have installed using asdf (so for 18.3 you're looking for: http://erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_18.3.tar.gz)
Copy man folder with its content (extracted from the archive) to ~/.asdf/installs/erlang/<version>/lib/erlang/. After doing so, you should have .~/asdf/installs/erlang/<version>/lib/erlang/man containing man1, man3, man4, man6, man7 (and each of those folders should have some manpages in it).
Repeating steps above for all the versions installed using asdf, allows you to use manpages for specific version of Erlang you are using at the moment.
looks like erlang-manpages are not included in the asdf-erlang since you are using ubuntu i would suggest you add Erlang Solutions repository to your system, call the following commands:
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
then install erlang-manpages:
sudo apt-get install erlang-manpages
you could also install erlang-doc — HTML/PDF documentation
sudo apt-get install erlang-doc
check this page for more information
The man path in #MaciekTalaska 's answer seems not correct, it does not work at all, for erlang 18.3.
After reading ASDF's activate script(), here's one statement:
_KERL_MANPATH_REMOVABLE="$HOME/.asdf/installs/erlang/18.3/lib/erlang/man:$HOME/.asdf/installs/erlang/18.3/man"
Therefore, you just need to:
Go to https://www.erlang.org/downloads/ and download manpages for the version(s) of Erlang you have installed using asdf (so for 18.3 you're looking for: http://erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_18.3.tar.gz)
Copy man folder with its content (extracted from the archive) to $HOME/.asdf/installs/erlang/${version}, but not $HOME/.asdf/installs/erlang/${version}/lib/erlang/ (in fact, there isn't a folder named erlang under lib).

Install python3-gi for Travis-CI and Python >= 3.3

What is the correct way to install python3-gi on Travis-CI using the .travis.yml file?
The past recommendation was to use Python 3.2 (Travis-ci & Gobject introspection), but I would prefer testing against more recent versions.
I did try a few sensible combinations of commands, but my knowledge of the Travis-CI environment is very basic:
This for example fails with and without using system_site_packages: true:
before_install:
- sudo apt-get install -qq python3-gi
virtualenv:
- system_site_packages: true
Two examples of repositories that have this working (as far as I can tell):
https://github.com/ignatenkobrain/gnome-news (CircleCI)
https://github.com/devassistant/devassistant (Travis-CI)
In order to use a newer version you would either have to build it or use a container system like docker.
gnome-news has an example of a pygobject project using circleci (which is another free alternative to travis-ci). They are using fedora rawhide in docker which has the latest versions of the entire gnome stack.

Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows via CYGWIN

I am attempting to follow instructions on this page:
http://www.agilereasoning.com/2011/05/25/ruby-on-rails-on-windows-7-using-cygwin/
I have been trying to install Rails with varying success first using the railsinstaller and I encounter difficulties like no vim and I couldn't copy and paste from the Windows command prompt so I install CYGWIN. It didn't download the files correctly so I downloaded them manually and some were hard to locate. I couldn't find the final package as a .tar file so I downloaded libxslt-devel-1.1.20-1.i386.rpm.
Right click the Cygwin shortcut and choose edit from the menu. Change the contents to >match:
1 #echo off
2 C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -sr -sl 1500 -e C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i
Do I have to put this as a command to run on the executable or inside the cygwin commmand prompt? When I try to do that I get this:
-bash: 'command': command not found
Lots of things wrong here.
You can copy/paste the command prompt with Edit->Mark or Edit->Paste
libxslt-devel-1.1.20-1.i386.rpm is a linux file.
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt - why are you mesing around with rxvt?
I recommend you install the rubyinstaller + devkit and then do gem install rails. However don't expect to be happy with rails' performance on windows.
Ruby on Rails on Windows via CYGWINTry:
Install Vagrant
Virtual Box,
and Cygwin (or PuTTy, I am using Cygwin).
With this set, open Cygwin, go to your project folder, run vagrant init <box> (my box is hashicorp/precise64 - see others)
(you may also want to cfg your Vagrantfile?). All set, Run: vagrant up and vagrant ssh
Now you have a virtual machine (Ubuntu) running, and you can install rvm (recommended... so you can have different versions of Ruby), or go directly with ruby, rails, etc.. (sudo apt-get ruby -v x.x.x,etc)
- Vagrant "creates and configures lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments".
- Cygwin helps with ssh issues, etc...
- Virtual Box manages the machine (Ubuntu, or other OS)
With this set, I have no problem at all running Ruby (on Rails) with Windows.

nosetests --with-pylons test.ini => Error: no such option: --with-pylons

I followed the application to run the tests of pylons project:
http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/0.9.7/i18n/#testing-the-application
But when I run:
nosetests --with-pylons test.ini
It reports an error:
E:\pylons\helloworld>nosetests --with-pylons test.ini
Usage: nosetests-script.py [options]
nosetests-script.py: error: no such option: --with-pylons
Why nosetests doesn't know the --with-pylons, how to fix it?
If you are using Pylons 1.0.1, the nose plugin is not registered by Pylons itself any more.
A workaround is to add this to the entry_points section of your own project's setup.py:
[nose.plugins]
pylons = pylons.test:PylonsPlugin
This error happens in cases where nose cannot find installed pylons.
This can happen if nose is installed system-wide (for example, via apt-get install python-nose), but Pylons is installed in virtual environment. In that case you can either:
Install Pylons system-wide, that would pollute your global environment and defeat the purpose of having virtual environment
Install nose in virtual environment (easy_install -U nose when virtual environment is activated)
If you've installed the latest version of pylons using pip, version 1.0.1rc1 is installed. Nose is not able to find the pylons-plugin.
To fix this downgrade to pylons 1.0.
pip uninstall pylons
pip install pylons==1.0
I had the same problem and found the solution here
I never used --with-pylons. When I am in the directory of the project, nosetests does the job without any parameters.
I'm on Linux, with the proper virtualenv activated. Maybe it's different on Windows.

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