I have a rails application that I have been working on for a few days after I successfully installed rails.
I closed my terminal window to open up a new window and unfortunately when I try to restart the local rails server, it says rails is no longer able to be found.
Even after I run
rbenv install 3.1.2
the ruby version does not reflect the latest.
Installing ruby-3.1.2...ruby-build: using readline from homebrewInstalled ruby-3.1.2 to /Users/sharatakasapu/.rbenv/versions/3.1.2
Sharats-MBP:~ sharatakasapu$ ruby -vruby 2.6.8p205 (2021-07-07 revision 67951) [universal.x86_64-darwin21]Sharats-MBP:~ sharatakasapu$
When I try to install rails
gem install rails -v 7.0.2.4
I get this error
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0 directory.
This doesn't exactly seem like a ruby question so much as a macOS question. You used rbenv to upgrade your ruby which is fine, but macOs currently comes with ruby 2.6 pre-installed. Your system probably has it installed for a reason so don't remove it.
Try running which ruby in your shell to confirm your shell is picking up /usr/bin/ruby which is the built in version. To pick up a different version of ruby you'll need to modify your system path so that the location of the ruby version you want to pick up gets scanned before the version you don't want.
You will first need to find where rbenv installed the ruby version you are looking for on your machine. The output you sent says rbenv to ~/.rbenv/versions/3.1.2. You can modify the path variable of a single shell session with PATH=$HOME/.rbenv/versions/3.1.2:$PATH but this is imperfect because if you close the shell and reopen it your path will have its prior value. I've certainly made that mistake before.
Persistently changing your path depends on your shell version but the default shell on macOS is zsh which can be configured by appending export PATH=$HOME/.rbenv/versions/3.1.2:$PATH" to your .zshenv you may have to research your specific shell. You'll know you did it right when which ruby brings up the location of the new ruby and ruby --version returns the expected version. Cheers.
echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
You are using the ruby version of your system, not the rbenv one. Follow the next steps to switch to rbenv.
Step 1 Add the following lines to your .zshrc file if they are not exist
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init - zsh)"
Step 2
rbenv install 3.1.2
rbenv global 3.1.2
Step 3
gem install rails -v 7.0.2.4
I'm getting this error when I try to invoke rails, rails -v or rails -c:
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:779:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem rails (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:214:in `activate'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1082:in `gem'
from /usr/bin/rails:18
I installed RVM, used it to install Ruby 1.9.3, and switched to it rvm use 1.9.3 --default.
When I ruby -v:
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
I also gem install rails --no-rdoc --no-ri and checked...ls ~/ruby/gems/gems/:
actionmailer-3.2.8/ journey-1.0.4/ rake-0.9.2.2/
actionpack-3.2.8/ json-1.7.5/ rdoc-3.12/
activemodel-3.2.8/ mail-2.4.4/ rubygems-bundler-1.0.7/
activerecord-3.2.8/ mime-types-1.19/ rvm-1.11.3.5/
activeresource-3.2.8/ multi_json-1.3.6/ sprockets-2.1.3/
activesupport-3.2.8/ polyglot-0.3.3/ sprockets-2.4.5/
arel-3.0.2/ rack-1.4.1/ thor-0.16.0/
builder-3.0.0/ rack-cache-1.2/ tilt-1.3.3/
bundler-1.1.5/ rack-ssl-1.3.2/ treetop-1.4.10/
erubis-2.7.0/ rack-test-0.6.1/ tzinfo-0.3.33/
hike-1.2.1/ rails-3.2.8/
i18n-0.6.0/ railties-3.2.8/
And if I echo $GEM_PATH:
/home/flackend/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194:/home/flackend/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194#global
echo $PATH:
/home/flackend/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/home/flackend/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194#global/bin:/home/flackend/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/home/flackend/.rvm/bin:/usr/local/jdk/bin:/home/flackend/perl5/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/flackend/.rvm/bin:/home/flackend/bin
cat ~/.bashrc:
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# User specific aliases and functions
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
cat ~/.bash_profile:
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*
So somewhere something has a path that says to look at the system Ruby install. Any ideas? Thanks!
EDIT
Okay, also, If i switch back to the system Ruby, rvm use system, and rails -v, I get:
Rails 2.3.8
So I have no idea at all what this error is indicating.
You have not completed rvm installation. You need add ~/.rvm bin paths before /usr/bin by command in .bashrc:
[[ -s "/Users/pftg/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/pftg/.rvm/scripts/rvm".
To test just check $PATH env. Should be similar to:
/.../.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125#global/bin:/.../.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin:/.../.rvm/bin:/usr/local/bin
If you installed everything ruby as well as rails means, you may need to select the 'Run command as login shell' checkbox by doing following,
Open terminal
Go to Edit tab, then select Profile Preferences from the menu item.
The Profile Preferences window should be displayed, then select Title and Command tab.
Then select the checkbox Run command as a login shell.
I just used RVM to create a "gemset", switched to it, and tried installing Rails again and it works now.
https://rvm.io/gemsets/
I'm not sure why that fixed it or why it wasn't working before. I like when things work, but I would rather have figured out why it wasn't working with the #global gemset.
Thanks for all your help!
I had the exact symptoms described above as well and was stuck on this problem for quite some time (the ruby environment and dependencies are a horrible mess). I can't say I'm out of the woods yet but at least I'm picking up the correct version of rails now and gotten past this error.
I believe the real issue here is actually to do with zlib. It seems that it's a crucial component to separate your system version of ruby (v1.8 likely install via yum/apt-get) with the other versions or Ruby you need (installed via rvm) for other projects.
If you do not have zlib installed, or rvm is not using it correctly, then sometimes you will pick up the system ruby/rails and all sorts of strange errors occur.
If you DO have zlib installed (yum/apt-get install zlib) then the trick I discovered was that I specifically had to tell rvm which version of zlib to use when installing ruby.
rvm install 1.9.3 --with-zlib-dir=$rvm_path/usr
I'm adding ruby 1.9.2 to a Mac running 10.6.8 and hitting a problem with rvm rubygems latest. I've run the following with no problem:
$ rvm install 1.9.2
$ rvm use 1.9.2
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]
Then hit this error:
$ rvm rubygems latest
Removing old Rubygems files...
Installing rubygems-1.8.10 for system ...
ERROR: Error running 'GEM_PATH=":#global" GEM_HOME="" "/usr/local/rvm/rubies//bin/ruby" "/usr/local/rvm/src/rubygems-1.8.10/setup.rb"', please read /usr/local/rvm/log/system/rubygems.install.log
WARN: Installation of rubygems did not complete successfully.
ln: /usr/local/rvm/rubies//lib/ruby/gems/: No such file or directory
The obvious thing here is the extra forward-slash in the bin/ruby and lib/ruby paths. Any ideas where this is coming from and how to fix it?
Note that I've also got the following line at the end of my .bash_profile file:
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function
I'm doing all of this so that I can run Octopress. I've also got a Rails 2.3.8 project that I am developing on this same machine. This is the first time I've dealt with anything other then the system version of ruby (1.8.7).
I've had the same problem, and although I didn't really fully understood why it was happening, attacking the main symptom solved it for me.
It seems that you have already another version of ruby installed on your system. The line on the rvm rubygems script that generates the error is this:
__rvm_run "rubygems.install" \
"GEM_PATH=\"$GEM_PATH:${GEM_PATH%%#*}#global\" GEM_HOME=\"$GEM_HOME\" \"${rvm_ruby_binary}\" \"${rvm_src_path}/$rvm_gem_package_name/setup.rb\"" \
"Installing $rvm_gem_package_name for ${rvm_ruby_string} ..."
https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/blob/master/scripts/rubygems#L104
I think that internally rvm is losing itself and creating paths with the double slash on it, probably because RVM is appending the RVM local dir with the output of some command similar to which ruby (or whatever the path rvm is searching for may be). I really don't know why it does that (doesn't RVM work in a system with ruby installed?).
Anyhow, to fix that in my machine I simply ran sudo aptitude purge ruby (you would of course run the MAC equivalent of that), to remove the ruby version that was messing with rvm.
If you have something related with ruby installed on your computer, I think a good idea would be to remove them all, and use RVM to manage all your ruby related goodness.
On linux (debian/ubuntu), a good approach is typing dpkg -l | grep ruby to see which packages related to ruby are installed on your machine, and then purge them all.
After that, run
$ rvm use 1.9.2
$ rvm rubygems latest
Everything should work like a charm. At least uninstalling ruby worked for me.
Hope it helps.
I just ran rvm default which allowed everything to work properly. I fields is right that rvm hasn't set something completely or at all. This has actually fixed this problem for me consistently.
I use rvm to manage different rubies and their gemsets. My shell is zsh with oh-my-zsh configured with basic settings. Enabled oh-my-zsh plugins are ruby, rails, osx, and git. Here's the command I used to install ruby-1.8.7 and rails-3.0.7.
rvm install 1.8.7
rvm use 1.8.7
gem install rails -v=3.0.7
and then I typed rails and got:
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:
$ sudo gem install rails
You can then rerun your "rails" command.
I've tried more thorough installs also, Like reinstall rubygems after switching to ruby-1.8.7, or create a completely new gemset, but with no luck.
Here's the rvm info:
ruby-1.8.7-p352#rails:
system:
uname: "Darwin yicai.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64"
bash: "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)"
zsh: "/bin/zsh => zsh 4.3.9 (i386-apple-darwin10.0)"
rvm:
version: "rvm 1.8.6 by Wayne E. Seguin (wayneeseguin#gmail.com) [https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/]"
ruby:
interpreter: "ruby"
version: "1.8.7"
date: "2011-06-30"
platform: "i686-darwin10.8.0"
patchlevel: "2011-06-30 patchlevel 352"
full_version: "ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin10.8.0]"
homes:
gem: "/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#rails"
ruby: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352"
binaries:
ruby: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin/ruby"
irb: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin/irb"
gem: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin/gem"
rake: "/Users/nil/.rvm/bin/rake"
environment:
PATH: "/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#rails/bin:/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#global/bin:/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin:/Users/nil/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
GEM_HOME: "/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#rails"
GEM_PATH: "/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#rails:/Users/nil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352#global"
MY_RUBY_HOME: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352"
IRBRC: "/Users/nil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/.irbrc"
RUBYOPT: ""
gemset: "rails"
and the gem version is 1.8.10, the latest.
If you're running a rails command immediately after installing rails, you will need to restart your terminal before your commands will be recognized.
I had this problem today. Not completely related to your question, but since this page is what comes up in Google when I search for "Rails is not currently installed on this system", I thought I would add my answer:
What happened is that I was using ruby 1.9.2 with rails for a while, but then I needed to use ruby 1.8.7 to run some other script that I found.
Afterwards, I wanted to change by system back to using 1.9.2, and that's where the problem started:
$ rvm list
=> ruby-1.8.7-p352 [ x86_64 ]
ruby-1.9.2-p290 [ x86_64 ]
$ rvm use 1.9.2
I thought that would do the trick. But no, that gives me the "Rails is not currently installed on this system" message.
What I had forgotten is that I had configured rails using an rvm gemset. So I needed to specify the correct gemset when I was selecting which ruby version to make active.
$ rvm gemset list_all
gemsets for ruby-1.8.7-p352 (found in /Users/asgeo1/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352)
global
gemsets for ruby-1.9.2-p290 (found in /Users/asgeo1/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290)
global
rails31
$ rvm use ruby-1.9.2-p290#rails31
That did the trick.
Mac OS X, rbenv, and rails
I was getting the exact same issue but with rbenv rather than rvm. After verifying a correct .bash_profile.
.bash_profile
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
Restart the shell
exec $SHELL -l
Check the path
echo $PATH
Finally
I repeatedly installed and uninstalled rails but it was never placed in the .rbenv/bin directory after rbenv rehash. In the end I did a find . -name rails and uninstalled every gem that was returned and uninstalled rails. Then:
$ gem install rails
$ rbenv rehash
$ which rails
/Users/palmerc/.rbenv/shims/rails
I had the same issue and found that RVM was not showing as installed either if I tried the rvm command. All it took to fix both problems was running this command in the terminal
$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
Restart your terminal and then re-run your rails command
Rails is not reporting that it isn't installed. Your Debian system is telling you that rails isn't installed. One thing about rvm is that it relies on some complicated bash shell scripting and you sometimes need to start a fresh shell for changes to appear. You should also make sure that the correct rvm shell commands were added to your .zshrc file.
Also check your path to make sure the ~/.rvm/gems/... path in included.
I ran into this issue using rbenv. Turns out gem install rails did in fact install Rails but rails was not recognized as an executable. The fix for me was to run rbenv rehash.
I found this fix and more details on setting up Rails 5 at https://gorails.com/setup/osx/10.11-el-capitan
I have encountered this problem, but it has been resolved.
I use macOS, I do not use rvm, I only use HomeBrew, I first use gem env to get the installation directory of all gems, mine is:
$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:
-RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.1.2
-RUBY VERSION: 2.7.1 (2020-03-31 patchlevel 83) [x86_64-darwin19]
-INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0
-USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/myname/.gem/ruby/2.7.0
...
Then you try to go to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0 to find the executable file directory of the rails gem that you have installed, for example: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/bin, then add to the path environment variable
I found this problem but the solutions above didn't solve it. I am not using rvm (and I'm working on mac) and I had to update the path to add rails executable directory:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
I had a similar issue, but with rbenv.
I originally installed ruby on bash. Then I played around with .bashrc in VIM, messed that file up, and reset it back to default. In doing so, I unknowingly removed the exported rbenv $PATH. Because of this, my terminal no longer recognized that I had ruby installed.
I revisited the ruby installation page (https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/15.04) and tried to set up my rbenv path again with this command:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
It failed.
Luckily, I had already switched to zsh (with oh-my-zsh) between the time I messed up my .bashrc and the time I tried to access irb from my terminal.
My solution was to set up the rbenv path per the installation guide, but by replacing all instances of .bashrc with .zshrc like so:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
Hope this helps!
Here's what I've done. And the problem is gone. Hence I guess problem solved.
rvm use system
change to the system ruby. remove all gems in it using the command provided and explained here. then I install wanted ruby versions from scratch:
rvm install 1.8.7
rvm install rails -v 3.0.7
then bundle install
for further detail, might need dig into the gem install procedure.
add source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to your .bashrc file if rails installs fine but then you get the error "rails is not currently installed". This frustrated me for a while but I found the answer here: http://www.codelearn.org/blog/how-to-install-ruby-rails-screencasts-linux-mac-windows
I just reloaded my terminal
source ~/.bashrc
See: How do I reload .bashrc without logging out and back in?
Rbenv users
I had the same issue and this worked for me.
Setting the ruby version in the current directory.
rbenv local 2.7.1
Then I was able to run rails new
I had the same problem but the solution above didn't help.
This was my scenario
rvm list
=> ree-1.8.7-2012.02 [ i686 ]
ruby-1.9.3-p125 [ x86_64 ]
which ruby
/Users/dev/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2012.02/bin/ruby
which rails
/usr/bin/rails
gem list --local
..
rails (3.2.8)
rails2_asset_pipeline (0.1.20)
railties (3.2.8)
..
rvm use ruby-1.9.3-p125
which ruby
/Users/dev/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/ruby
which rails
/Users/dev/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/rails
By uninstalling rails and railties and reinstalling rails when using ree my problem was resolved.
Hope this helps others in my situation, not sure how I got into it :S
I had the same problem, I ended up deleting my .rvmrc rvm --create --rvmrc 1.8.7#project where the 1.8.7#project is whatever you want your ruby to be. cded in and out and it worked. http://sirupsen.com/get-started-right-with-rvm/
Just had same problem and couldn't find an answer. Here's what I did:
find current rails path
$ which rails
returns something like this: /usr/local/rails
Delete current version:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/rails
Reinstall rails
$ sudo gem install rails
I ran into this same issue and none of the answers given helped so I thought I'd share my solution in case it might be useful for someone else.
I was messing around with my .profile and .bashrc files and along the way I messed up my RVM install. Still not sure exactly what I did, but the fix was easy. Just had to run the following command, which cleans up all of your system path settings for RVM:
rvm get [head|stable] --auto-dotfiles
Note that if you're running an old version of RVM this may upgrade your setup, which may not be what you want.
A possible solution is to not maintain two different configuration files .bash_profile and .bashrc
The solution as suggested in this excellent post on the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc is to source .bashrc from your .bash_profile file, then putting PATH and common settings in .bashrc.
Quoting,
add the following lines to .bash_profile:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
end quote
I had this error after updating ruby. I had to run 'bundle install' to fix it.
Try to specify gemset explicitely in your Gemfile:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby "2.2.3"
#ruby-gemset=rails424
Try This:
You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell.
Sometimes it is required to use /bin/bash --login as the command.
$ bin/bash --login
$ rails -v
I had this message on my Mac:
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest
version, simply type:
and it was about the $PATH not being correct. The system has an outdated version of rails (/usr/bin/ruby). The path to your chosen version of ruby ($HOME/.rbenv/versions/2.3.0/bin) must precede the system's outdated version along $PATH var, like below:
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/versions/2.3.0/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH"
adjust it to your version of ruby.
For MacOS (High Sierra):
Tokaido is the Rails installer system recommended on the "Getting Started" Rails guide page for Mac OS. But it doesn't just install, it runs its own shell scripts. If you start out using that, which sources its own shell environment, then later start a terminal without launching from the Tokaido shell, this happens, because the "rails" command falls back to the original system rails code on the Mac.
For mine, the 'which rails' command in a normal terminal returns
/usr/bin/rails
But after launching Tokaido's shell, 'which rails' gives this path:
/Users/charlesross/.tokaido/Gems/2.2.0/bin/rails
Out of nowhere Rails wasn't currently installed but, what fixed it was
rvm use ruby-2.6.0
...and verified my path in .bash_profile
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"
I was having this problem today. I haven't 100% solved it, but in new tabs I can do rvm use 2.5.5 and then rails -v works fine.
➜ my-repo git:(next_release) ruby -v
ruby 2.5.5p157 (2019-03-15 revision 67260) [x86_64-darwin18]
➜ my-repo git:(next_release) rails -v
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:
$ sudo gem install rails
You can then rerun your "rails" command.
➜ my-repo git:(next_release) rvm use 2.5.5
Using /Users/amberwilkie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.5
➜ my-repo git:(next_release) rails -v
Could not find rake-12.3.3 in any of the sources
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.
➜ my-repo git:(next_release) bundle install
I was looking through the source and found another error message that suggested the user run the following command.
I ran the command and everything now works. None of the suggestions above worked for me. Run the command from inside your newly created Rails app.
gem pristine --all
Here is how it worked for me:
Intall rvm in mac by following the mac installation instruction
rvm install ruby
gem install rails
rails --version
For me ( MacOS Monterey, rbenv) adding rails version to gem install command get the problem resolved.
you can find a specific version of rails that matches to your ruby from this link and replace the VERSION .
gem install rails -v VERSION
rbenv rehash
after successful installation, then rails should be added to /Users/your_user/.rbenv/shims
Also plz check that your shims directory should be the first element of your path.
➜ ~ echo $PATH #
/Users/ario/.rbenv/shims: ...
I was following along with the Odin Project ruby-on-rails course by
installing rbenv,
adding eval "$(rbenv init -)" to ~/.zshrc
installing rails gem
attempting to run rails new my_first_rails_app
But I had forgot to run source ~/.zshrc after editing the file, so I was seeing the error:
Rails is not currently installed on this system.