I’m new so I just can’t figure out what’s going on here. I was going
through a tutorial to learn the ins and outs of Rails and then it just
stopped working.
I’m running RubyMine on Windows for now. Here are the errors:
[rake --tasks] rake aborted!
Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See
for a list of available runtimes.
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/execjs-1.2.11/
lib/execjs/runtimes.rb:47:in autodetect' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/execjs-1.2.11/ lib/execjs.rb:5:in
module:ExecJS’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/execjs-1.2.11/
lib/execjs.rb:4:in <top (required)>' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee- script-2.2.0/lib/coffee_script.rb:1:in
require’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee-
script-2.2.0/lib/coffee_script.rb:1:in <top (required)>' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee- script-2.2.0/lib/coffee-script.rb:1:in
require’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee-
script-2.2.0/lib/coffee-script.rb:1:in <top (required)>' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee- rails-3.1.1/lib/coffee-rails.rb:1:in
require’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/coffee-
rails-3.1.1/lib/coffee-rails.rb:1:in <top (required)>' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/ lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in
require’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/
lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in block (2 levels) in require' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/ lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in
each’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/
lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in block in require' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/ lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in
each’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/
lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in require' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/bundler-1.0.21/ lib/bundler.rb:122:in
require’
W:/RubymineProjects/blog/config/application.rb:7:in <top (required)>' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/ custom_require.rb:36:in
require’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:36:in require' W:/RubymineProjects/blog/Rakefile:5:in
<top (required)>’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/
rake/rake_module.rb:25:in load' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/ rake/rake_module.rb:25:in
load_rakefile’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/
rake/application.rb:501:in raw_load_rakefile' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/ rake/application.rb:82:in
block in load_rakefile’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/
rake/application.rb:133:in standard_exception_handling' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/ rake/application.rb:81:in
load_rakefile’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/
rake/application.rb:65:in block in run' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/ rake/application.rb:133:in
standard_exception_handling’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/lib/
rake/application.rb:63:in run' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2.2/bin/ rake:33:in
<top (required)>’
W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/rake:19:in load' W:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/rake:19:in
’
I tried “gem install execjs” and “therubyracer”. No change. I tried
reinstalling Ruby, then Rails. No change. I tried adding them to my
Gemfile and bundle install but it fails at “therubyracer” What could I
have possibly done? Is it really as fragile as it seems or did I just
make a terrible mistake?