MapScript projection error - CGI works fine

[Pascal Ehlert]

Just checked it, everything I need is supported ;-)

Thank you again!


Umberto Nicoletti wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Pascal Ehlert <dadark at dadark.de> wrote:
>> Hi Frank!
>>
>> I figured that out myself in the meantime, I used the mapserver from the
>> debian package
>> and compiled mapscript on my own.
>>
>> As Ruby mapscript isn't very well documented and I didn't check the
>> whole sourcecode yet,
>> does anyone know how up-to-date it is?
>> Are at least the current main features supported?
>
> You might want to tell us what you need to do and we'll answer with a 
> yes or no.
> 'Main features' is a bit fuzzy ;-)
>
> Umberto
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you (especially Frank for your help of course)
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank Warmerdam schrieb:
>> > Pascal Ehlert wrote:
>> >> Hi Mapserver Community!
>> >>
>> >> This is my first post here, I hope the project is still active.
>> >>
>> >> I've just been trying to migrate my MapServer stuff from the CGI
>> >> version to
>> >> the Ruby MapScript version
>> >> for better integration with my Rails (for those of you who don't
>> >> know, it's
>> >> a Ruby web framework) application.
>> >>
>> >> Now, while CGI is working fine, the MapScript refuses to work at all,
>> >> because of a projection error.
>> >> This really confuses me, I'm using exactly the same mapfile for both
>> >> of them.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This is what I do in Ruby and the error I get:
>> >>
>> > > RuntimeError: loadProjection(): Projection library error. Projection
>> > support
>> > > is not available.
>> >
>> > Pascal,
>> >
>> > This generally means that your Ruby mapscript was built without PROJ.4
>> > support.  I think you need to rebuild ruby mapscript ensuring that 
>> PROJ.4
>> > support is enabled during the full build of mapscript and the 
>> underlying
>> > mapserver library.  I'm guessing that your mapscript and mapserver cgi
>> > are
>> > not from the same build.
>> >
>> > PS. MapServer is still very active, though perhaps Ruby Mapscript 
>> is only
>> > lightly used.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>>
>