yajl-ruby throws exception on OS X Lion 10.7.4, ruby 1.9.3

[WattsInABox]

running rake test yields:

Starting redis for testing at localhost:9736...
Run options: --seed 35876

# Running tests:

....dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _yajl_set_static_value
Referenced from: /Users/williamrwatson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@resque/gems/yajl-ruby-1.0.0/lib/yajl/yajl.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: _yajl_set_static_value
Referenced from: /Users/williamrwatson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@resque/gems/yajl-ruby-1.0.0/lib/yajl/yajl.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

rake aborted!

[WattsInABox]

Solution is to upgrade yajl-ruby to ~> 1.1. I can actually submit a pull request for this right now, but I wanted to make sure the issue was tracked properly

[geemus]

@BillyWatson - I was unable to reproduce the original error. I did a fresh checkout, bundle install and then bundle exec rake and everything passed. I'm on ruby 1.9.3-p125 and Mac OS X 10.7.4. Perhaps you have some other configuration problem?

[hone]

I had some coworkers try to repro this to no avail with ruby 1.9.3p194, OS X 10.7.4, and yajl-ruby (1.0.0). I'm going to go ahead and close this.

[WattsInABox]

Maybe there is another configuration problem on my machine then. I'll try this again later. At a loss, at the moment, as to what that config problem may be. Thanks for trying.

[hone]

@BillyWatson if you do find anything else out, please share! Thanks for reporting.

[schneems]

@BillyWatson, I tried this out on my machine and all tests passed. If you find the config on your machine that reproduces this let me know. Here is my be gem list output

activesupport (3.2.6)
airbrake (3.1.1)
builder (3.0.0)
bundler (1.1.4)
hoptoad_notifier (2.4.11)
i18n (0.6.0)
mocha (0.9.12)
multi_json (1.3.6)
rack (1.4.1)
rack-protection (1.2.0)
rack-test (0.6.1)
rake (0.9.2.2)
redis (2.2.2)
redis-namespace (1.0.3)
resque (1.20.0)
sinatra (1.3.2)
tilt (1.3.3)
vegas (0.1.11)
yajl-ruby (1.0.0)

[yaauie]

Apparently there is/was an issue with the yajl c not being compatible with clang that produces this error (more info on implementations of static and inline here ).

This issue does not occur for us (even on older Yajl versions) when we build Ruby with apple-gcc42 from homebrew.

# update homebrew
$ brew update

# install apple-gcc42 and its dependencies
$ brew install autoconf automake
$ brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/master/apple-gcc42.rb

# install 1.9.3 against the gcc you just installed
$ rvm install 1.9.3 --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2

That said, clang has its own benefits that you're missing out on by using the old gcc.