Missing the Rails gem on ubuntu

Rails
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I’ve just deployed a second 2.1.0 app on to a long-running ubuntu
8.0.4 box. The first app, which lives in the same top level
directory, runs fine. The new app, however, mostly refuses to run
(mongrel will start, but I can’t migrate or start the console),
raising this error:

“Missing the Rails 2.1.0 gem. Please gem install -v=2.1.0 rails,
update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the
Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION
to use the latest version installed.”

If I comment out the RAILS_GEM_VERSION, then it throws this instead:

“Missing the Rails gem. Please gem install -v= rails, update your
RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails
version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use
the latest version installed.”

The gem is definitely there, as the other app–which has a virtually
identical envrionment.rb (a few more requires)–runs fine.

Any suggestions?

Best,
Todd

2

Hi Todd

I had the same problem on my development machine, basically some of
the instructions out there are less than satisfactory (hint hint:
Agile Web D. with Rails)… I solved the problem by
completely removing rails, ruby, and mysql/sqlite3, and starting again
using the following satisfactory guides:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails

and for the database (just go to the database section):
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntu

good luck!

3

Hi Nellboy,

I got it in the end by freezing the gems. Less than ideal, but it’s
not a public facing app so my customer service pixies will just have
to live with it if it falls over.

Thanks,
todd