# Error while running "rails shovell"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-running-rails-shovell/163685>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-running-rails-shovell/163685 "2009-03-23T22:58:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-while-running-rails-shovell/163685/1 "2009-03-23T22:58:55Z")

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I have just installed rails thru Curt H. installment file  
(InstantRails 1.3a zip).  
I am trying to create the required directories for a demo application  
named “shovell”.  
I opened the ruby console and I ran “rails shovell”

I get the following errors.

“C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport -2.3.2/lib/  
active\_support/vendor.rb:5: undefined method ‘gem’ for  
main:object ,noMethodError\>  
from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:21:in ‘require’  
from c:/” …etc