# Botched Gem Install --\> Database Won't Migrate, Help!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/botched-gem-install-database-wont-migrate-help/90348>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 28, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/botched-gem-install-database-wont-migrate-help/90348 "2007-03-28T01:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Ellison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@John\_Ellison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_Ellison)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/botched-gem-install-database-wont-migrate-help/90348/1 "2007-03-28T01:59:23Z")

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I did this:

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C:\InstantRails\rails\_apps\telltor\>gem install rmagick  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby gem\_extconf.rb install rmagick

sh configure

gem\_extconf.rb:38: undefined method `exitstatus’ for nil:NilClass  
(NoMethodError  
)

## Gem files will remain installed in C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/r magick-1.15.4 for inspection. Results logged to C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.4/gem \_make.out

And now, no matter what I try to install, uninstall, or delete, I get  
this whenever I migrate my files:

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C:\InstantRails\rails\_apps\telltor\>rake db:migrate  
(in C:/InstantRails/rails\_apps/telltor)  
rake aborted!  
no such file to load – RMagick

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

## C:\InstantRails\rails\_apps\telltor\>

I even installed a new InstantRails and moved my app folder into the new  
“rails\_apps”, but this carried over the problem! So, the problem must  
be inside the app folder itself, “telltor” and yet I can’t figure it  
out.

This stinks. Thanks for help in advance.