# About ready to ditch rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-ready-to-ditch-rails/147464>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-ready-to-ditch-rails/147464 "2008-09-02T05:05:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-ready-to-ditch-rails/147464/1 "2008-09-02T05:05:57Z")

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I know all of you are really dedicated to rails. But the fact is I’ve  
become really exasperated with it lately.  
Ever since the move to Rails 2.1, I’ve had sooo many problems just  
getting a functioning Rails stack.  
Its really exasperating when you spend most of your development time  
trying to actually get a setup working instead of programming.

Basically, I have a problem with rubygems. The only way I’ve been  
able to get rubygems to work has been installing an older version of  
it.

Whenever I install it now, I get a ‘gem original require’ error,  
either at line 9 or 27. I’m running debian linux.

Right now, its telling me:  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:9:in `require': no such file to load -- rbconfig (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:9 from /usr/bin/gem:9:in`require’  
from /usr/bin/gem:9

I’m sorry to rant–I just haven’t been able to get the gem package  
manager to work without a hassle for a long time. Its just so  
frustrating that I’m thinking of switching to a more reliable  
platform. I’ve gotten past this error at some point, but every! time  
I try and set up a development environment this happens and I lose  
time trying to figure out what is wrong.

Ron

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**Author:** ![ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@ron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ron)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-ready-to-ditch-rails/147464/2 "2008-09-02T05:21:45Z")

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On 02/09/2008, at 12:35 PM, Ron wrote:

> no such file to load –  
> rbconfig

For starters, googling this error turned up what seems to be a good  
solution:  
[http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse\_thread/thread/f374601eca13d97f](http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/f374601eca13d97f)

Secondly, if you’re having problems, talk to somebody. The IRC channel  
is active 99.999% of the time at [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net) #rubyonrails, if you  
can’t get on then use a web-based client like [http://mibbit.com](http://mibbit.com).  
Alternatively, post on the google group (this one) with your error and  
you’ll have a crack team of uber-smart people attempt to (and usually  
succeed in) solving it.

I think it’s just that you miss that same step every time. Don’t get  
angry and stressed (that’s what got me “fired” from my last job), just  
ask for help, please?