therubyracer on FreeBSD

[Patrick]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Dan Langille <dvl at biglist.com> wrote:

> I am trying to get therubyracer installed on FreeBSD.  We'll use any
> Javascript, but this is the one we are trying now.  Recommendations
> welcomed.
>
> We are using FreeBSD 8.4 with gcc4.9 and ruby 2.1.2p95
>
> I get 'bundle install --deployment' working,but 'bundle exec rake
> assets:precompile' gives a bus error.
>
> I raised an issue: https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/299
>
> Seems that bus errors have occurred previously on FreeBSD 8:
> https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/96
>
> That issue took 10 months to resolve... Hopefully we can figure this out.
>
> Any ideas please?



If you can, I'd avoid therubyracer entirely. I wasted so much time fighting
with it on FreeBSD. ExecJS supports other runtimes such as Node.js, which
works great and without the upstream battle against which you'll face using
therubyracer.