I understand that Rails is a gem. Which means when I run
gem list
the terminal should echo the name rails for me.
My problem is that I can run
rails --version
but when it comes to gem list I only receive *LOCAL GAME LIST* without any text following.
What could be wrong? Is it my understanding?
Thank you and best regards
Check Your Path and/or Package Manager
If you have Rails installed through your package manager, rather than as a gem, then your local gem list will be empty. If you are running Debian or Ubuntu, dpkg -l rails will show you whether it's installed as a system package instead.
You can also find which binary you're invoking with which rails on the command line. If you did a source install, that may tell you where in your PATH the Rails application is located.
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I installed Ruby and Rails and set-up the PATH to "C:\Rails\Ruby2.3.0\bin", but when I try to run commands with rails, I get the error message:
The System cannot find the path specified.
I am able to run commands using ruby, and rails works if I use GitBash. How do I make it work on my normal command line?
Had the same problem here, installed the same way. Couldn't even run rails commands on GitBash, only way was going in C:\Rails\Ruby2.3.0\binthrough cmd and typing, for example, ruby rails new projectname. The rails new projectnamewouldn't work even in these conditions.
What I did was going in the Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails and entered gem install rails (which did not work on cmd). I also did gem install bundle. Both installed successfully and that fixed all consoles for me: cmd, GitBash (wasn't working for me), Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails and even cmder works with Rails now.
Hope this helps you.
Cheers.
If it's a simple question of locating the rails executable on Windows, then on later installs that use msys64 instead of DevKit, you'll find rails at the following folder:
c:\msys64\o-rdoc
Add this to your PATH or execute from that folder.
Your path may vary on 32-bit systems or if you changed the default install folder.
This may sound very basic to many of you. I have just started a Ruby on Rails tutorial in Linux. I'm very new to the Linux OS. I have installed a rvm. But I am unable to install Rails. It's saying "cant load such file --zlib". And I can see two source files for Ruby. Not sure if I have two Ruby installed.
Just take a note that you have selected the correct build system:
"Tools -> Build System -> Ruby"
Then press CTRL+B.
This should work.
You can execute .rb file in sublime using ctrl + b.
It seems you are a bit confused about how Ruby on Rails work.
Sumblime can run your ruby code but not on Rails stack.
My suggestion it's to work always with an open terminal on the directory of your rails application.
Let's assume you created a new rails project as
rails new helloWorld
The rails generetor will create a subfolder helloWorld.This will be your working directory in the terminal.
So you have to do:
cd helloWorld
and then
rails s
It will run your rails application on an embedded server on localhost:3000 by default.
What method did you use to install ruby?
If you compiled from source you may need to do
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
And then recompile ruby
Otherwise, you may not have the most recent version of Rubygems
Try:
go to https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/releases/tag/v2.2.3
download rubygems-update-2.2.3.gem
call the directory where the file was dl'ed, then
gem install rubygems-update-2.2.3.gem
update_rubygems --no-ri --no-rdoc
rubygems --version #Should show 2.2.3
gem install rails
Hi I have installed passenger modul for apache2 and then i tried to install rails, with the command:
gem install rails
It seemed to be done well. But when I check the verison now with
rails --version
i got an error during this:
command not found....
You need to specify the PATH variable to folder where you have installed Rails, so when the 'rails' command will be triggered your system will know which program to launch.
Example: PATH=$PATH:/your_rails_folder
Running OSX Mavericks, ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin13.0], rvm 1.25.23 (master), and rails-4.1.0 (allegedly)
I'm working through the railsapps.org book on learning rails and made it about 1/2 way through yesterday. When I stopped for the day, I closed out iTerm2 and shut off the Macbook Pro. Today, I powered up, opened iTerm, navigated to my working directory (~/rubyonrails/learn-ruby) and entered rails -v.
I see this:
`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.`
So I run sudo gem install rails and it shows that it has installed rails-4.1.0. Now rails -v still gives me the same error message above.
I tried also running rvm use ruby-2.1.1#learn-rails first and I still get the error message.
So I'm a little stuck and I can't figure out what to do to get rails working. Also, how do I go about setting up the bash environment such that I don't have to go through this each time? It would be nice to nav to my working directory and just start work without having to do a bunch of re-installation and reconfiguration each time.
Regards,
Jeff
please type in your shell:
$ bash --login
and then repeat your commands.
rails -v
Also try to call it with the full path:
like:
/your/path/to/rails -v
I think that the shell just doesn't know where rvm/rails etc is located.
You can solve this by entering:
$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
When you switch to the ruby-2.1.1#learn-rails ruby/gemset combo, and do gem list, what do you see?
The way people usually use rvm is to have every project folder specify the ruby & gemset it uses (they don't all have to be different). This is done with files called .ruby-version and .ruby-gemset. These should contain, in your case, ruby-2.1.1 and learn-rails respectively.
Set these if you haven't already, then leave the folder and enter it again. Then do bundle install to install the gems for the project into the rvm/gemset combo.
Your problem is that you ran
sudo gem install rails
The error message telling you to do this comes from your system Ruby, which doesn't know that you want to use RVM.
RVM installs gems into your user-space directory. By using sudo, you're bypassing this and installing it into (effectively) the superuser space, i.e. globally.
If you instead just run
gem install rails
then you'll be using RVM's copy of the gem utility rather than the globally installed version.
This is a beginner-level question.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04
I copied a project (created on Rails 4 using the rails new command) from Dropbox to my local environment, where I have previously install Rails 4 and up-to-date Ruby and RVM, went to project's directory, typed rails server and got
The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install rails
I ran gem install rails instead.
Will I have to run gem install rails on every project's directory? I thought the Rails install was a general and accessible on my whole environment.
The project was created using the same Ruby version, but on a MacOS X system.
The project is a static web brochure and has no database configuration.
Thank you in advance.
Make sure you're using the correct version of Ruby - the same version that you'd installed Rails into - with rvm list.
You likely have two of them (since you have such an issue) - the system Ruby and the RVM-installed Ruby. And likely RVM didn't engage and hook up the correct path to the rails executable, thus the error.
This should fix the issue:
rvm use whatever-ruby-you-had-installed-rails-into
Where whatever-ruby-you-had-installed-rails-into is a string like ruby-2.1.0-p0 taken from the rvm list output.
To make RVM retain Ruby version for the project.
echo whatever-ruby-you-had-installed-into >.ruby-version
in your project's path.
So after a few hours of testing, reproducing the problem, and reading (the other answers inclusive) I got the solution as follows:
Short answer: No. Rails needs to be installed only once.
Long answer: This problem occurred because of a default setting on Terminal that prevents the system from using RVM installations of ruby and rails. The solution is to integrate RVM with gnome-terminal as described in the RVM website.
With terminal window active, go to the menu at the top bar
Edit > Profile Preferences > Title and Command tab
Check the Run command as a login shell box
Restart Terminal and make sure your gemset and ruby version are set
rails server should now work as expected (you might be prompted to run bundle install before Rails can actually run fine, follow the promtp).
I am still learning to work with Ruby on Rails, so any inputs, clarifications, or additional information on the issue is more than welcome.
You don't have to install Rails on every project, but the gems that you need for that project.
With bundle install you install all the gems that you specify in Gemfile.
If you want to avoid reinstall the gems every time you change project, I suggest you to have a better look to RVM: it has got an opt called gemset (https://rvm.io/gemsets), if you use it you just need to switch your gemset:
rvm gemset use yourgemset
I hope it can help you.