# Installation problems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247 "2006-05-02T17:50:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/njohnson)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247/1 "2006-05-02T17:50:35Z")

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Complete newbite to ROR.

I have installed Ruby, RubyGems, & Rails according to the information at  
the following url: [http://xmlareas.com/ruby-rails-howto.html](http://xmlareas.com/ruby-rails-howto.html) on a copy  
of Fedora Core 4.

If I run the gem list command I can see the various packages including:  
actionmailer(1.2.1)  
rails(1.1.2)

However the installation instructions end and the next step is a  
tutorial creating an application. This instructs the use of the rails  
command to start a new app.

On running the rails command I get the following:  
-bash: rails: command not found

What’s missing?

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**Author:** ![njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/njohnson)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247/2 "2006-05-03T18:59:46Z")

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This my sound silly but have you ran:  
gem install rails?

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**Author:** ![njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/njohnson)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247/3 "2006-05-03T19:34:58Z")

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yep

reads:  
Local gem file not found: rails\*gem  
Attempting remote installation of ‘rails’  
Updating Gem source index for [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Successfully installed rails-1.1.2

Then running the command: rails

I get:

bash: rails: command not found

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**Author:** ![njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@njohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/njohnson)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problems/59247/4 "2007-09-25T23:03:58Z")

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Hi Ziad,

Thanks for your help, it worked.

However, Is this something that I must do each time I restart, as I did  
previously do this step, as suggested in the Installation instructions  
on  
the gnuradio website.

thanks again,

Aadil