Installing activerecord sans gems

Hopefully this won’t sound too odd, but I want to install activerecord
& its dependencies on a box without rubygems.
I’ve grabbed and installed activesupport, sqlite3 and activerecord,
and they seem to be installed OK, but even the simplest active record
app dies when it hits creating a schema. Any thoughts as to what I’m
missing?

Thanks,
Kyle

[kschmitt@wrk]$ ./main.rb
– create_table(:users)
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in
require': can't convert Symbol into String (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in
new_constants_in' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:7:in
require_library_or_gem' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:insilence_warnings’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:5:in
require_library_or_gem' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite_adapter.rb:14:insqlite3_connection’
from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in
send' ... 9 levels... from ./main.rb:13 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/schema.rb:43:ininstance_eval’
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/schema.rb:43:in
`define’
from ./main.rb:12