Re: gems/Rails issues on etch
On 08/03/07 at 14:18 -0500, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> Lucas,
>
> I seem to be having a wider gem related problem. I noticed that ruby
> isn't able to find any of the gems. For example if I do
>
> rails test
>
> I get:
> bash: rails: command not found
This is because gem doesn't install binaries in $PATH. It's your
responsability to update $PATH so that it includes the rails path.
There's a bug on rubygems about that, but I can't lookup the number
right now (no internet access).
> Inside irb if I type require 'rails'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- rails
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
> from (irb):1
> I uninstalled all ruby related debs and reinstalled them. Again I
> installed the rubygems deb.
> gem install rails --include-dependencies
> works fine and I get successful installs in /var/lib/gems but as a
> regular user I cannot use them. I am installing them as root as I've
> done always rather than sudo.
Mmmh, this might be a bug...
> WHen I installed etch, I had a botched dist-upgrade and so I installed
> from the net-inst cd but I left all my partitions the same and left my
> /home volume undisturbed. It seems to have worked for most other
> apps. Wonder if that's causing a problem.
No, that shouldn't be a problem.
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