Install Glitch

Ubuntu 5.10, Ruby 1.8.3. I installed rubygems, then tried rails, and
get a tragic looking error at the end. Is this a problem? It looks
related to rdoc.

root@bonus:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.11# gem install rails
–include-dependencies
Attempting local installation of ‘rails’
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Successfully installed rails-1.1.2
Successfully installed rake-0.7.1
Successfully installed activesupport-1.3.1
Successfully installed activerecord-1.14.2
Successfully installed actionpack-1.12.1
Successfully installed actionmailer-1.2.1
Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.1.2
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require__': no such file to load -- rdoc/rdoc (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in require’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/doc_manager.rb:43:in
generate_rdoc' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:215:in execute’
from
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:214:in each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:214:in execute’
from
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:153:in each' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:153:in execute’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in
invoke' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:94:in process_args’
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:67:in
run' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:13:in run’
from /usr/bin/gem:17
root@bonus:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.11# gem

Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t work with 1.8.3. Nice.

Ian H. wrote:

Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t work with 1.8.3. Nice.

http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37

Thanks, that’s about what I ended up doing.

Michael G. wrote:

Ian H. wrote:

Never mind, it seems rails doesn’t work with 1.8.3. Nice.

http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37

I’ll try agagin…

Here’s a link to a quick and dirty rails from source howto for ubuntu

http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37