# I cannot run rails -v **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 20, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747 "2007-12-20T09:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/1 "2007-12-20T09:21:36Z")
Hi, After I update rails I cannot run rails -v anymore? sudo gem update rails Password: Updating installed gems… Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) Attempting remote update of rails Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 1 gem installed Gems: [rails] updated Jamal:videosite $ rails -v /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:377:in `report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: activesupport(1.4.2 not = 2.0.2) (Gem::LoadError) from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:309:in `activate’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:334:in `each’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:334:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:76:in `active\_gem\_with\_options’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:50:in `gem’ from /Library/Ruby/bin/rails:15 * * * Do I miss something? I tried with gem install rails --include-dependencies but this installed rails 2.0.2 once again? Thanks for any help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/2 "2007-12-20T09:55:47Z")
Am 20.12.2007 um 09:21 schrieb Jamal S.: > Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:76:in > rails 2.0.2 once again? > You are running a wrong version of activesupport (RubyGem version > error: activesupport(1.4.2 not = 2.0.2) (Gem::LoadError)) Have you tried “gem install activesupport” ? ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/3 "2007-12-20T10:01:54Z")
Jochen K. wrote: > Am 20.12.2007 um 09:21 schrieb Jamal S.: > > > Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 > > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:76:in > > rails 2.0.2 once again? > > You are running a wrong version of activesupport (RubyGem version > > error: activesupport(1.4.2 not = 2.0.2) (Gem::LoadError)) > > Have you tried “gem install activesupport” ? \*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\* actionmailer (1.3.5, 1.3.3) actionpack (1.13.5, 1.13.3) actionwebservice (1.2.5, 1.2.3) activerecord (1.15.5, 1.15.3) activesupport (1.4.4, 1.4.2) I have those installed already, do I need to update them? ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/4 "2007-12-20T10:11:03Z")
Am 20.12.2007 um 10:01 schrieb Jamal S.: > > Have you tried “gem install activesupport” ? > > I have those installed already, do I need to update them? > > I should look like this: actionmailer (2.0.2) actionpack (2.0.2) actionwebservice (1.2.6) activerecord (2.0.2) activeresource (2.0.2) activesupport (2.0.2) Try this: gem update --system gem update --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) – Jochen K. [figgfrosch.de](http://figgfrosch.de) / [gissmoh.de](http://gissmoh.de) / [ror-ror.de](http://ror-ror.de) / [railswerk.de](http://railswerk.de) ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/5 "2007-12-20T12:41:48Z")
I just did that Jochen K. 🙂 #sudo gem update --system Password: Updating RubyGems… Updating metadata for 7 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) … complete Attempting remote update of rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.0.0 1 gem installed Updating version of RubyGems to 1.0.0 Installing RubyGems 1.0.0 … cp update\_rubygems /tmp/update\_rubygems install -c -m 0755 /tmp/update\_rubygems /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/update\_rubygems rm /tmp/update\_rubygems rm /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/source\_cache Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri… rm -rf /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-0.9.5 Installing rubygems-1.0.0 ri into /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.0.0/ri… Installing rubygems-1.0.0 rdoc into /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.0.0/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. RubyGems system software updated #sudo gem update --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) Updating installed gems… Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) Attempting remote update of actionmailer Successfully installed actionmailer-2.0.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.0.2… Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.0.2… Attempting remote update of actionpack Successfully installed actionpack-2.0.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.0.2… ERROR: While generating documentation for actionpack-2.0.2 … MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=33, text=“TODO” … RDOC args: --ri --op /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/actionpack-2.0.2/ri –quiet lib (continuing with the rest of the installation) Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.0.2… Attempting remote update of activerecord Successfully installed activerecord-2.0.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.0.2… ERROR: While generating documentation for activerecord-2.0.2 … MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=33, text=“Id” … RDOC args: --ri --op /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/activerecord-2.0.2/ri --main README --quiet lib README (continuing with the rest of the installation) Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.0.2… Attempting remote update of activesupport Successfully installed activesupport-2.0.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.0.2… ERROR: While generating documentation for activesupport-2.0.2 … MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=33, text=“Ruby” … RDOC args: --ri --op /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/activesupport-2.0.2/ri --quiet lib (continuing with the rest of the installation) Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.0.2… Gems updated: actionmailer, actionpack, activerecord, activesupport I still get error when I run rails -v rails -v /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:378:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem activeresource (= 2.0.2) (Gem::LoadError) from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:310:in `activate’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:336:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `each’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:65:in `active\_gem\_with\_options’ from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:50:in `gem’ from /Library/Ruby/bin/rails:15 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/6 "2007-12-20T12:42:45Z")
This is the new gem list actionmailer (2.0.2, 1.3.5, 1.3.3) actionpack (2.0.2, 1.13.5, 1.13.3) actionwebservice (1.2.5, 1.2.3) activerecord (2.0.2, 1.15.5, 1.15.3) activesupport (2.0.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.2) ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/7 "2007-12-20T13:32:53Z")
Am 20.12.2007 um 12:41 schrieb Jamal S.: > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:65:in `active\_gem\_with\_options’ > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:50:in `gem’ > from /Library/Ruby/bin/rails:15 try gem install activeresource --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) – Jochen ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/8 "2007-12-20T17:32:16Z")
Jochen K. wrote: > Am 20.12.2007 um 12:41 schrieb Jamal S.: > > > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:65:in `active\_gem\_with\_options’ > > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:50:in `gem’ > > from /Library/Ruby/bin/rails:15 > > try > > gem install activeresource --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) > > – > Jochen Thank you very much 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-cannot-run-rails-v/123747/9 "2008-06-29T01:00:45Z")
Jamal S. wrote: > Jochen K. wrote: > > > Am 20.12.2007 um 12:41 schrieb Jamal S.: > > > > > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:335:in `activate' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:65:in `active\_gem\_with\_options’ > > > from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:50:in `gem’ > > > from /Library/Ruby/bin/rails:15 > > > > try > > > > gem install activeresource --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org) > > > > – > > Jochen > > Thank you very much 🙂 I’m having the same problem but i get: Error installing activeresource: invalid gem format for /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/cache/activesupport-2.1.0.gem when i try to install active support.