unable to start rails console - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm new to ruby and tried following what this tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GQmC-8k09c) said but I'm having problem with the console. I'm running a linuxmint 17 and this are my specs
Ruby version 2.1.2-p95 (x86_64-linux)
RubyGems version 2.2.2
Rack version 1.5
Rails version 4.1.1
JavaScript Runtime Node.js (V8)
I have tried :
spring stop
bundle install
whenever I run rails c this happens:
Loading development environment (Rails 4.1.1)
load error: /home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/.irbrc
NoMethodError: undefined method `split' for nil:NilClass
/home/hanwai/.rvm/scripts/irbrc.rb:45:in `<top (required)>'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `require'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `block in require'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:232:in `load_dependency'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `require'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/.irbrc:11:in `<top (required)>'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `block in load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:232:in `load_dependency'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/irb/init.rb:236:in `run_config'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/irb/init.rb:19:in `setup'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/irb.rb:380:in `start'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:90:in `start'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:69:in `console'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:40:in `run_command!'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/railties-4.1.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `require'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `block in require'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:232:in `load_dependency'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:247:in `require'
/home/hanwai/rails/blog/bin/rails:8:in `<top (required)>'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `block in load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:232:in `load_dependency'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/activesupport-4.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:241:in `load'
/home/hanwai/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
irb(main):001:0>
this is my irbrc.rb file
# This is the common irbrc file used by all rvm ruby installations.
# This file will be overriden every time you update rvm.
# Turn on completion.
begin
require "readline"
require "irb/completion" rescue nil
# Turn on history saving.
# require "irb/ext/save-history"
# IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".irb-history")
# Use an alternate way to on history saving until save-history is fixed.
#
# bug: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1556
# patch: http://pastie.org/513500
#
# This technique was adopted from /etc/irbrc on OS X.
histfile = File.expand_path(".irb-history", ENV["HOME"])
if File.exist?(histfile)
lines = IO.readlines(histfile).collect { |line| line.chomp }
Readline::HISTORY.push(*lines)
end
Kernel::at_exit do
maxhistsize = 100
histfile = File::expand_path(".irb-history", ENV["HOME"])
lines = Readline::HISTORY.to_a.reverse.uniq.reverse
lines = lines[-maxhistsize, maxhistsize] if lines.compact.length > maxhistsize
File::open(histfile, "w+") { |io| io.puts lines.join("\n") }
end
rescue LoadError
puts "Readline was unable to be required, if you need completion or history install readline then reinstall the ruby.\nYou may follow 'rvm notes' for dependencies and/or read the docs page https://rvm.io/packages/readline/ . Be sure you 'rvm remove X ; rvm install X' to re-compile your ruby with readline support after obtaining the readline libraries."
end
# Calculate the ruby string.
rvm_ruby_string = ENV["rvm_ruby_string"] ||
(
ENV['GEM_HOME'] &&
path = ( File.realpath(ENV['GEM_HOME'].to_s) rescue nil ) &&
( path = $1 if path =~ /(.+)\/$/ ; true ) &&
path.split(/\//).last.split(/#/).first
) ||
("#{RUBY_VERSION}-p#{RUBY_PATCHLEVEL}" rescue nil) ||
(RUBY_DESCRIPTION.split(" ")[1].sub('p', '-p') rescue nil ) ||
(`ruby -v` || '').split(" ")[1].sub('p', '-p')
# cut ruby- ... everyone knows it's ruby
rvm_ruby_string = $1 if rvm_ruby_string =~ /^ruby[- ](.*)/
# Set up the prompt to be RVM specific.
#prompt = {
:PROMPT_I => "#{rvm_ruby_string} :%03n > ", # default prompt
:PROMPT_S => "#{rvm_ruby_string} :%03n%l> ", # known continuation
:PROMPT_C => "#{rvm_ruby_string} :%03n > ",
:PROMPT_N => "#{rvm_ruby_string} :%03n?> ", # unknown continuation
:RETURN => " => %s \n",
:AUTO_INDENT => true
}
IRB.conf[:PROMPT] ||= {}
IRB.conf[:PROMPT][:RVM] = #prompt
IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] = :RVM if IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE] == :DEFAULT
# Load the user's irbrc file, if possible.
# Report any errors that occur.
begin
load File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".irbrc") if File.exist?("#{ENV["HOME"]}/.irbrc")
rescue LoadError => load_error
puts load_error
rescue => exception
puts "Error : 'load #{ENV["HOME"]}/.irbrc' : #{exception.message}"
end
any advices?

Answer 1

You can try with the command irb (which is a Ruby command-line interpreter too) instead of rails c, it can be enough.
If not, see this solution which is near your problem.
Hope this help !