I'm quite new to Ruby in general and especially RoR, so tell me if I need to add more information.
Upon running sudo gem install rails (after a long delay) I receive the following error message:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::UnknownHostError)
no such name (https://api.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/mime-types-1.17.2.gemspec.rz)
I entered the link and it downloaded something, so I tried again - not entirely surprisingly, I got the same error.
I'm running OSX 10.7.5 and I've installed XCode 4.6.3 as well as the command line tools. I've installed Ruby 2.1.0 so I know I have that up to date. I thought the error might have something to do with sudo typically running whatever came with the machine, but if that's true, wouldn't it give me an error saying I needed a version of Ruby >= 1.9.3?
To be perfectly clear what I'm asking: why will Rails not install under the above conditions, and how can this be remedied?
Edit: I ran the command yet another time and this time it worked, and I don't know why it didn't before or what made it work now. As a note for anyone who should care, I do have RVM installed and used it to install Ruby.
OS X comes with ruby 1.8.x
My guess is that you are still defaulting to that version and not the 2.1 you have installed.
I would recommend installing RVM or equivalent so that you can shift from system 1.8.x to your 2.1 (or else as you can manage several versions of ruby and rails with RVM)
I would recommend against installing rails as root. I ran into this issue where
ruby -v
returned ruby 2.1.0 and
sudo ruby -v
returned ruby 1.9.1
Every time I tried to run
gem install rails
I kept getting errors as a result. I'm not familiar with Mac's package manager but this is what worked for me on ubuntu
sudo apt-get remove ruby1.9.1
then
sudo ruby -v
should return command not found. Then installing rails worked fine
gem install rails
These were the directions I followed. The main problem was I had already installed ruby prior to running(I think heroku toolbelt did it).
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-with-rvm
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I'm very new to RoR specially on Mac. I have installed it many times on Ubuntu with RVM and I'm very comfortable with that. Here is what happened on Mac:
I went through instructions as explained here http://goo.gl/zsHcCC then when I got to the point to install Rails with " gem install rails " I got this error:
Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Now I want to roll-back everything and uninstall rbenv and it's ruby versions and reinstall the Ruby On Rails environment using RVM.
I tried to find how to uninstall Homebrew, RBENV and Ruby, but no success.
Thank you.
Sia
Homebrew or Rbenv are very good tools to have as a dev, I would think twice before removing either.
In this case I doubt they are at fault.
Can you confirm you have installed the GCC command line utils for OSX by running $ xcode-select --install in your terminal.
Here is a useful post explaining that process but I find that command generally works fine for me.
If this succeeds what does your $ gem install rails output next?
If you are very new you and you don't need specially the last version of Ruby. You can use Rails Installer http://railsinstaller.org/fr-FR.
To uninstall brew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/FAQ.md
I am trying to install Ruby, RubyGems, and the Ruby on Rails framework so that it will play nicely with my system. I am having issues with my installation. Could somebody help me? Here are the details of my system and how I went about installation.
Currently I am running ubuntu 10.10 using the Linux Kernel 2.6.35-28-generic. My server is Apache 2.2.16 and I use MySQL 5.1.49.
So, I went to my synaptic package manager and selected the following packages to download:
* ruby1.8 – installs Ruby 1.8.4
* libmysql-ruby – additional libraries to access MySQL
* libruby1.8-dbg – debugging library
* ri – Ruby Interactive Reference
* ruby1.8-dev – header files for building extensions
* rails – Ruby On Rails framework
Once that ran successfully, I downloaded rubygems from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/. Then I unpacked it, got in the terminal, ran a cd to get in the directory of the newly downloaded rubygems directory, and typed 'sudo ruby setup.rb' That ran with no problem and RubyGems 1.8.5 was installed. Then I ran 'sudo gem install rubygems-update' with no problem.
But when I ran 'sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies' I got the following output:
Fetching: activesupport-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Fetching: rails-3.0.8.gem (100%)
Successfully installed activesupport-3.0.8
Successfully installed rails-3.0.8
2 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-3.0.8...
Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.8...
File not found: lib
ERROR: While generating documentation for rails-3.0.8
... MESSAGE: exit
... RDOC args: --ri --op /var/www/testingwww/rubygems-1.8.5/nclude-dependencies/doc/rails-3.0.8/ri lib --title rails-3.0.8 Documentation --quiet
When I run 'rails -v' I get 'Rails 3.0.8' so it seems to have installed despite the error. But when I try to make a rails app by typing 'rails ./helloWorld' I get the manual page for the rails keyword.
I have looked around for two days now on how to fix this issue, but can't seem to figure it out. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Rails 3 requires version 1.8.7 or 1.9.2.
I'd recommend using RVM to manage your Ruby installation and environments. It will really help to get you going quickly and is simple. It's as simple as
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash
to install RVM and then rvm install 1.9.2 will get you going.
Have a look at https://rvm.io for more information.
In addition to Matthew's good Answer, I don't know why you're doing rails ./helloWorld. To generate a new app in Rails 3, you should do rails new helloWorld.
If you need a complete guide to getting rolling with Rails under Ubuntu, you can find a short guide here: http://blog.dcxn.com/2011/06/21/rolling-with-rails-3-on-ubuntu-11-04/
The gist is:
Install RVM (The Ruby version manager)
Install Rails from gem
Get going with Rails
It's a simple process but there are a few things you need to do for it to be completely smooth like making sure you have the pre-requisites for rvm installed via apt before install rvm.
Good luck!
I just installed Rails on OSX. I used the stock version of Ruby and followed the following procedure:
Installed newest version of RubyGems
Ran sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
Installed Mongrel using sudo gem install mongrel --include-dependencies
Rails is working just fine, but more reading led me to this setup guide:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-mongrel-mysql-osx
This is essentially the exact same install I performed, except he compiles it from source code and installs to /usr/local -- I really like this idea, since it keeps the OSX install stock and confines all my dev stuff to one area.
So, assuming I want to follow these instructions, what do I need to do to revert my system back to "stock" ruby? Can I just uninstall the Rails and Mongrel gems? Will the upgraded RubyGems cause any issues?
Basically, my concern is that some other software unrelated to my development work will need to use OSX's stock Ruby, and I will have screwed it up somehow. Any advice to undo the 3 steps I listed above and get as close to stock as possible would be appreciated.
Thanks!
The article you are referring to is over three years old (which is outdated in the Rails community). My recommendation is:
Install XCode
Install Homebrew
Install MySQL, Postgres, Image Magick, etc. (brew install mysql, etc.)
Install RVM
Install Ruby 1.9.2 (rvm install 1.9.2)
Switch to default (rvm 1.9.2 --default)
Install Rails (gem install rails)
Install Passenger (gem install passenger)
Each step will have a few more substeps but you should be able to look them up or be promted with them.
I can't remember why I did this but I do know that it worked and has caused no problems since. I moved /Library/Ruby to /Library/Ruby.broken and then installed Ruby from source into /usr/local.
There's something fundamentally missing with the stock Ruby in OSX. I wish I could remember what that was.
When I try to run even simple rails commands such as:
rails -h
I get a popup error after a few seconds that says:
ruby.exe - Unable To Locate Component
This application has failed to start
because msvcrt-ruby18.dll was not
found. Re-installing the application
may fix the problem.
I am running:
Windows XP (yes I know I should attempt ruby on a Windows machine).
Ruby 1.9.1p378 [i386-mingw32].
Have updated all my gems to latest versions (as of 14-July-2010).
Is there a way I can test what is making this error? Does anyone know what it could mean?
I have found that in my ruby19/bin folder there is msvcrt-ruby191.dll but there is no msvcrt-ruby18.dll anywhere. Why would it be looking for this anyway if I'm using ruby 1.9?
The current release version 1.1.5 of Mongrel is incompatible with Ruby 1.9 and throws this error when it is run. It's easy to solve - just make sure Rubygems is up-to-date:
gem update --system
Then install the new pre-release version of Mongrel:
gem install mongrel --pre
Alternatively, if this isn't caused by Mongrel, you can try installing the DevKit, then try this:
gem install *gemname* --platform=ruby
This forces compilation of the extension from source using DevKit and works with most of the major gems I've tried.
Ruby 1.9.1 was running well on my Windows XP PC, but I've got this error message after installing mongrel. Unfortunately, mongrel has no update for Ruby 1.9.1 yet. Perhaps, for this reason, it generates this error on my PC.
JRuby might work better for you. Either way, trying to use Ruby on Windows will leave a bad taste in your mouth. Either get a VM with Linux to work with it, or pay $10/mo for a VPS where you can play.
you got the binary version of the gem, which only includes binaries for 1.8
try gem install mongrel --platform=ruby --pre
To solved msvcrt-ruby.dll error
Install DevKit ( https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit )
> gem uninstall json
> gem install json
I tried to install the new beta on my system with the command:
sudo gem install rails --pre
but no matter what I tried, I still get this damn error:
Successfully installed
rails-3.0.0.beta3 1 gem
installed Installing ri
documentation for
rails-3.0.0.beta3... File not
found: lib
Since I'm very new to ruby, I really don't know what to do.
How can I finish installing this?
Is this installed already?
Why does it abort here?
All you need to run is gem install rdoc, follow its instructions, then run the install rails command again and you're good. The problem is due to rdoc failing to install when installed with rails, if installed manually it works fine.
Source: http://gist.github.com/565967
^ I had the same problem, and this worked for me.
If you're looking to do ruby/rails development on Mac, I'd strongly recommend not using the version of ruby/rubygems shipped with your mac. What I do recommend is:
Installing homebrew and using that to manage software packages on your mac.
Install brewbygems, which makes homebrew play nice with rubygems: gem install brewbygems
Install rvm and learn to love the different versions of ruby and rvm's gemsets feature: gem install rvm
Once you've done that you'll have a pretty robust development environment and you should be able to install any version of rails without a problem. Just keep in mind rails 3 works best using ruby 1.9.2 (install with rvm by running rvm install ruby-head) and is still in beta, meaning it isn't terribly stable and should not be used for anything production grade (yet).
I found the same error message, while after some google I've successfully installed it by manually 'sudo mkdir lib' in the .../gems/rails-3.0.0.beta3. Though it hasn't raised further problem, I hope someone could tell what should be in the missing lib directory.
You don't really need to do this sudo gem install rails --pre, simply sudo gem install rails. Rails3 is the default package now and out of beta.
It should work fine.
Might be a different solution on your OS, but I got the same exact error in Ubuntu and creating a ¨lib¨ folder under the rails gem folder solved my problem. I have explained the solution in the following post:
Installing Rails: "File not found: lib"
For convenience I will copy it here as well. The solution:
mkdir /lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-{whatever your version is}/lib
Explanation: The ¨[sudo] gem install rails¨ command expects the /lib folder (at the end) but for some reason it hasn´t been created yet.
The original source of this solution was the following URL. Hope it helps!
http://www.spritle.com/blogs/?p=915
Same problem with beta 4.
The workaround is sudo gem install rails --pre --no-ri --no-rdoc though I don't know why.