Error when starting web server from environment.rb

Hi,

I downloaded the rails package “rails-1.2.5.zip” from “http://
rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307” and unzipped in to c drive. When I
ran ruby script/server, it throws an error “c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/
1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’: ./
script/…/config/…/
config/environment.rb:8: syntax error, unexpected ‘<’ (SyntaxError)”

Then I opened the environment.rb and edited to remove < at the line
number 8. Ran the same command and works fine.

Is this the problem in rails release package?

Ram