# First time problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 30, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-time-problem/171331 "2009-06-30T19:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Relax_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-time-problem/171331/1 "2009-06-30T19:39:52Z")
This is the first time I am Running ruby on rails. When running the “blog” application I got the message “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly.” ## Then I checked the CODE\blog\log\development.log and got this: /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Tue Jun 30 15:22:55 +0100 2009 Status: 500 Internal Server Error no such file to load – sqlite3 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in`require’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active\_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in`new\_constants\_in’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active\_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:7:in`require\_library\_or\_gem’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active\_support/core\_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in `silence_warnings' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/ active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:5:in`require\_library\_or\_gem’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/sqlite3\_adapter.rb:10:in `sqlite3_connection' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:223:in`send’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_pool.rb:223:in `new_connection' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:245:in`checkout\_new\_connection’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_pool.rb:188:in `checkout' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:184:in`loop’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_pool.rb:184:in `checkout' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in`synchronize’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_pool.rb:183:in `checkout' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:98:in`connection’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_pool.rb:326:in `retrieve_connection' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb: 123:in`retrieve\_connection’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/connection\_specification.rb: 115:in `connection' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/query_cache.rb:9:in`cache’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active\_record/query\_cache.rb:28:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/ active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:361:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/head.rb:9:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/methodoverride.rb:24:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/params\_parser.rb:15:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/rewindable_input.rb:25:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/session/cookie\_store.rb:93:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/reloader.rb:9:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/failsafe.rb:11:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/lock.rb:11:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/lock.rb:11:in `synchronize' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/lock.rb:11:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/dispatcher.rb:106:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/rails/rack/ static.rb:31:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/urlmap.rb:46:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in`each’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/rails/rack/ log_tailer.rb:17:in`call’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/content\_length.rb:13:in `call' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/handler/webrick.rb:46:in`service’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in`run’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in`start’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in`start’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in`start’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in`start’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/ action\_controller/vendor/rack-1.0/rack/handler/webrick.rb:13:in `run' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/lib/commands/server.rb: 111 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in`gem\_original\_require’ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in `require’ script/server:3 * * * I have already thried: gem install sqlite3 ---- And got this response… ---- ERROR: could not find gem sqlite3 locally or in a repository I also tried: gem install sqlite3-ruby ---- And got this response… ---- Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib… no checking for sqlite3.h… no nmake ‘nmake’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ ext/sqlite3\_ api/gem\_make.out I am running Windows XP with XAMPP ( Apache + Msql + PHP ) How can I solve this ? ---
**Author:** ![Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Relax_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-time-problem/171331/2 "2009-07-01T01:51:04Z")
Install version 1.2.3. Version 1.2.4 does not work on Windows. (gem install sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.3) ---
**Author:** ![Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@Relax\_Man](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Relax_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-time-problem/171331/3 "2009-07-01T06:24:39Z")
Looks like you’ve installed the SQLite3 adapter for ruby, but you may not have actually installed the actual SQLite3 database engine. That isn’t a gem; you’d need to install it using whatever Windows installer is available (sorry I’m not much help there). If that’s the issue and you don’t want to install SQLite, you can use a different database that you already have installed (MySQL, MSSQL) as your development database, instead of SQLite3, by editing the database.yml file generated in the config directory of your rails application. In that case you would need to install the adapter for whatever database you choose to use (the adapters are gems, installed via the procedure you already used for the SQLite3 adapters). Best, Steve