# Installing activerecord sans gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-activerecord-sans-gems/120837>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-activerecord-sans-gems/120837 "2007-11-20T23:56:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kyle\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyle_s)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-activerecord-sans-gems/120837/1 "2007-11-20T23:56:57Z")

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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:in`require’  
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:in`require’  
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:in`silence\_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:in`sqlite3\_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:in`instance\_eval’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/active\_record/schema.rb:43:in  
`define’  
from ./main.rb:12