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error when installing Rails

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Hello All,

I have just created a new install of Ubuntu 8.10, and have proceeded to install all of the necessary packages for Ruby on Rails. I installed ruby, gems, and rails, but when i run rails -v, i get the following error:

root@li41-22:~# rails -v

-bash: rails: command not found

any guidance would be greatly appreciated

Jason

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It's probably just not in your path? The deb package for rails installs it to /usr/bin/rails, check to see if that file exists. I'm not sure where it goes if you install it from gem, but i think that is the recommended method.

How did you install Rails? Via Rubygems or Aptitude?

If you installed via RubyGems, it's probably in a directory like /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin

you have to create the symlinks :)

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/bin/ri

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/bin/rdoc

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/bin/irb

edit: ops i didin't see this post was this old. Maybe this will be usefull for future generation :P

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