mod_ruby install on Linux Fedora Core 5 Apache2 (2.2.2), some pointers

Hi folks,

This was going to be a 'how do I' but after figuring it out it's now a 
rough 'how to'.

I'm coming to ruby from mod_perl, and hope to port my enormous CMS at 
some stage.  Running on Linux (Fedora Core 5) with Apache 2.2.2.

I have installed the packages httpd-devel (apxs and friends), ruby, 
ruby-rdoc, ruby-devel (the libraries and header files), ruby-mysql, 
eruby, eruby-devel.

I happily ran  ./configure.rb --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs  .... all good, 
but then 'make' returned pages and pages of errors due to missing header 
files.

These were all apr_* includes so I tried installing the libapreq2-devel 
package (the apreq headers), still no joy.  Eventually I realised 
libapreq2 puts its headers into /usr/includes/apr-1  for some reason so 
the correct configure options are:

./configure.rb --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs 
--with-apr-includes=/usr/include/apr-1

I then struggled to make ERuby work, until I noticed the very subtle 
difference in httpd.conf between RubyRequire apache/ruby-run and 
RubyRequire apache/eruby-run.

hope this helps someone else!

John
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