Export Setup Wizard can't find xcpretty

dannytaurus

I just built HISE on Mac from latest develop commit and when running the Export Setup Wizard, xcpretty is not found.

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I already installed xcpretty and confirmed it with:

$  gem list xcpretty
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
xcpretty (0.3.0)
$ gem which xcpretty
/Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3/gems/xcpretty-0.3.0/lib/xcpretty.rb

Where does HISE look for xcpretty?

What do I need to do to make sure HISE can find xcpretty?

Christoph Hart

@dannytaurus hmm, actually I'm doing something similar. HISE starts a process, calls

gem list

and scans the output for xcpretty. My list looks like this:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

bigdecimal (default: 1.4.1)
bundler (default: 1.17.2)
CFPropertyList (2.3.6)
cmath (default: 1.0.0)
csv (default: 3.0.9)
date (default: 2.0.3)
dbm (default: 1.0.0)
did_you_mean (1.3.0)
e2mmap (default: 0.1.0)
etc (default: 1.0.1)
fcntl (default: 1.0.0)
fiddle (default: 1.0.0)
fileutils (default: 1.1.0)
forwardable (default: 1.2.0)
io-console (default: 0.4.7)
ipaddr (default: 1.2.2)
irb (default: 1.0.0)
json (default: 2.1.0)
libxml-ruby (3.2.1)
logger (default: 1.3.0)
matrix (default: 0.1.0)
mini_portile2 (2.8.0)
minitest (5.11.3)
mutex_m (default: 0.1.0)
net-telnet (0.2.0)
nokogiri (1.13.8)
openssl (default: 2.1.2)
ostruct (default: 0.1.0)
power_assert (1.1.3)
prime (default: 0.1.0)
psych (default: 3.1.0)
rake (12.3.3)
rdoc (default: 6.1.2.1)
rexml (default: 3.1.9.1)
rouge (2.0.7)
rss (default: 0.2.7)
scanf (default: 1.0.0)
sdbm (default: 1.0.0)
shell (default: 0.7)
sqlite3 (1.3.13)
stringio (default: 0.0.2)
strscan (default: 1.0.0)
sync (default: 0.5.0)
test-unit (3.2.9)
thwait (default: 0.1.0)
tracer (default: 0.1.0)
webrick (default: 1.4.4)
xcpretty (0.3.0)
xmlrpc (0.3.0)
zlib (default: 1.0.0)

What does it show if you run that command in a terminal? Actually your command is better, so I'll steal it :)

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart My gem list command shows hundreds of gems (I'm a Ruby on Rails dev) and xcpretty is definitely on the list.

$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

abbrev (default: 0.1.0)
actioncable (7.0.4)
...
whenever (1.0.0)
xcpretty (0.3.0)
xpath (3.2.0)
...
zlib (default: 2.1.1)

Christoph Hart

@dannytaurus haha you broke the matrix! I've committed a change that uses gem list xcpretty so that it won't clog the output with all gems. It still works for me, but please test it again on your machine as I don't feel like installing 100s of gems to test this out :)

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart Thanks for the update but that didn't fix it I'm afraid.

It might be to do with where HISE is looking for the gem.

I use a Ruby version manager to install and switch between multiple different Ruby versions.

The gem env command shows the various paths where gems are installed on my system.

I realize HISE probably just runs a simple gem list xcpretty command but if that's looking in the wrong directory it won't find it - even though for me it shows as installed.

I hope that makes sense?

$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.6
  - RUBY VERSION: 3.1.3 (2022-11-24 patchlevel 185) [arm64-darwin22]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3
  - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/bin/ruby
  - GIT EXECUTABLE: /opt/homebrew/bin/git
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/dan/.gem/specs
  - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/etc
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
     - ruby
     - arm64-darwin-22
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3
     - /Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => true
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gem" => "--no-document"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3/bin
     - /Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/bin
     - /Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/bin
     - /Users/dan/rubyonmac
     - /opt/homebrew/bin
     - /opt/homebrew/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin
     - /usr/bin
     - /bin
     - /usr/sbin
     - /sbin
     - /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin
     - /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin
     - /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin
     - /Library/Apple/usr/bin
     - /Users/dan/.local/bin
     - /Users/dan/.local/bin

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart I checked $GEM_HOME and $GEM_PATH and they point to the Ruby 3.1.3 directory, where xcpretty is installed.

$ echo $GEM_HOME
/Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3
$ echo $GEM_PATH
/Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3:/Users/dan/.rubies/ruby-3.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0
$ gem which xcpretty
/Users/dan/.gem/ruby/3.1.3/gems/xcpretty-0.3.0/lib/xcpretty.rb

I also installed xcpretty for every Ruby version I have on my machine, in case HISE is using a different Ruby.

It still didn't fix the issue.

$ chruby
   ruby-2.6.10
   ruby-2.7.0
   ruby-2.7.2
   ruby-2.7.7
   ruby-3.1.2
 * ruby-3.1.3
   ruby-3.2.0
   ruby-3.3.2
   ruby-3.3.3

dannytaurus

I should also point out that even though the Export Setup Wizard can't detect xcpretty, exporting a plugin from the Export > Export as Instrument menu item works fine

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart Just came back to look at this and finally solved it!

HISE uses the system Ruby version to look for xcpretty.

If you're using a Ruby version manager like rvm, Rbenv, ASDF or chruby you'll need to switch to the system Ruby to install xcpretty.

I use chruby so I did:

$ chruby system // or however your version manager switches to system Ruby

// Confirm I'm using the system Ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin23]
$ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby

// Install xcpretty for the system Ruby
$ sudo gem install xcpretty
Password: ********
Fetching rouge-2.0.7.gem
Fetching xcpretty-0.3.0.gem
Successfully installed rouge-2.0.7
Successfully installed xcpretty-0.3.0
2 gems installed

// Run the same command that HISE runs to make sure it's there
$ gem list xcpretty
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
xcpretty (0.3.0)

d.healey

@dannytaurus Might be worth adding this to the docs somewhere, maybe we should add a troubleshooting section for common issues.

dannytaurus

@d-healey Yeah, good idea. I haven't contributed to the docs yet. Is it just a PR to the docs repo?

d.healey

@dannytaurus https://docs.hise.audio/working-with-hise/project-management/documentation/contributing.html

ustk

@dannytaurus Excellent, I was wondering why it wasn't found on my system too

Export Setup Wizard can't find xcpretty

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