# Fresh rails 2 install not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 9, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fresh-rails-2-install-not-working/122578 "2007-12-09T19:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JSPablo_FernSSSSnd)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fresh-rails-2-install-not-working/122578/1 "2007-12-09T19:45:08Z")
Hello, I’ve installed Ruby and RubyGems from sources into /opt/rails/, then I installed using gem install rails. All went well installing, but I can’t run rails, I get this error: $ ruby /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/rails helloworld /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/…/lib/rails\_generator/options.rb:32:in `default_options': undefined method`write\_inheritable\_attribute’ for Rails::Generator::Base:Class (NoMethodError) from /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/…/lib/rails\_generator/base.rb:90 from /opt/rails//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from /opt/rails//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require’ from /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/…/lib/rails\_generator.rb:34 from /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/rails:13:in `require’ from /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/rails:13 any ideas what’s wrong? and/or how to fix it? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JSPablo_FernSSSSnd)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fresh-rails-2-install-not-working/122578/2 "2007-12-09T21:48:31Z")
Some more info: Installing Ruby: $ cd ruby-1.8.6-p111/ $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/rails/ $ make $ make install $ which ruby /opt/rails/bin/ruby $ ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux] Good! installing rubygems: cd …/rubygems-0.9.5/ $ ruby setup.rb … Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri… Installing rubygems-0.9.5 ri into /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-0.9.5/ri… Installing rubygems-0.9.5 rdoc into /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-0.9.5/rdoc… As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed. Searching $LOAD\_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a while)… …done. No library stubs found. $ which gem /opt/rails/bin/gem $ gem --version 0.9.5 Good? installing rails $ gem install rails Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) OpenURI::HTTPError: 404 Not Found reading [RubyGems.org | your community gem host](http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/activesupport-2.0.1.gem) Ooops, let’s try again. In the third try: $ gem install rails Successfully installed actionmailer-2.0.1 Successfully installed activeresource-2.0.1 Successfully installed rails-2.0.1 3 gems installed Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.0.1… Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.0.1… Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.0.1… Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.0.1… Good I suppose. $ which rails $ First problem. no rails binary/program. $ gem content rails | grep bin /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/about /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/console /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/destroy /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/generate /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/performance /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/performance/benchmarker /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/performance/profiler /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/performance/request /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/plugin /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/process /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/process/inspector /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/process/reaper /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/process/spawner /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/rails /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/runner /opt/rails//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.1/bin/server Somehow it didn’t install anything on /opt/rails/bin/ as expected. and that rails program just doesn’t work. Any ideas? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@JSPablo\_FernSSSSnd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JSPablo_FernSSSSnd)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fresh-rails-2-install-not-working/122578/3 "2007-12-10T01:27:59Z")
Solved. It seems it was just a matter of adding /opt/rails/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/ to the path, although I’m not 100% sure that was the only thing that was required, as I also re-installed. Thanks.