# Can't run rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 6, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600 "2006-08-06T16:44:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600/1 "2006-08-06T16:44:27Z")
Yesterday, I was having a problem with db:migrate. I was told my version of rails was too old, and I needed to install it from gems instead of the version in my version of Ubuntu. Since then, I’ve done that, and I built ruby 1.8.4 from source and installed it. The installation was to /usr/local/bin. As my distribution had put ruby 1.8.3 in /usr/bin, I renamed that and put a link to the version in /usr/local/bin in /usr/bin. If I run ruby --version, I see michael@photon:~/ruby/rails$ ruby --version ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] /usr/bin/ruby gives the same results. I still can’t run rails, though. When I type rails depot I get Rails does not work with Ruby version 1.8.3. Please upgrade to version 1.8.4 or downgrade to 1.8.2. I don’t even have a ruby version 1.8.3 on my system anymore. Why can’t I run rails? All help appreciated. —Michael ---
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600/2 "2006-08-06T17:07:55Z")
On 8/6/06, Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > ``` > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] > > ``` > > I don’t even have a ruby version 1.8.3 on my system anymore. Why can’t I > run rails? > > All help appreciated. > —Michael Is there a copy of Rails in your depot project’s vendor directory? Possibly from freezing an edge Rails version at some point. – James ---
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600/3 "2006-08-06T17:13:02Z")
James L. wrote: > On 8/6/06, Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > ``` > > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] > > > > ``` > > > > I don’t even have a ruby version 1.8.3 on my system anymore. Why can’t I > > run rails? > > > > All help appreciated. > > —Michael > > Is there a copy of Rails in your depot project’s vendor directory? > Possibly from freezing an edge Rails version at some point. At this point, I’m trying to create the depot project. The depot project doesn’t even exist - and won’t until I can get rails to run. ---
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600/4 "2006-08-06T20:32:14Z")
On 06/08/06, James L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 8/6/06, Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > James L. wrote: > > > > > On 8/6/06, Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > > > ``` > > > > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] > > > > > > > > ``` > > > > > > > > I don’t even have a ruby version 1.8.3 on my system anymore. Why > > > > can’t I > > > > run rails? Use your distributions package-removal tool to completely clean out ruby 1.8.3. Just manually installing it and setting a symbolic link is not going to do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-rails/101600/5 "2006-08-06T17:41:00Z")
On 8/6/06, Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Is there a copy of Rails in your depot project’s vendor directory? > > Possibly from freezing an edge Rails version at some point. > > At this point, I’m trying to create the depot project. The depot project > doesn’t even exist - and won’t until I can get rails to run. Apparently I was still half-asleep when I answered that, because somehow I got it into my head that you were trying to start your server and getting an error about the version of Rails. Sorry about that.