New Rails user, slightly confused by `rails` command

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Hi,

I’ve just installed Rails v3.0.5 and reading the guide
Getting Started with Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides.
Where it says to do:

rails new blog

that actually creates a site in a folder called “new”.

I also tried a couple of generators, rails generate devise:install
created a folder called “generate”, and so on.

This is the first line of output from rails -h:

Usage: /usr/bin/rails /path/to/your/app [options]

Which explains why I’m getting these folders created, but not why the
guides would tell me something different.
I’m wondering if I’m doing something incredibly stupid. If I am feel
free to point it out, it’s just par for the course.

Any help is much appreciated
Iain

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:52 PM, yb [email protected] wrote:

I’ve just installed Rails v3.0.5 and reading the guide
Getting Started with Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides.
Where it says to do:

rails new blog

that actually creates a site in a folder called “new”.

That means you have (at least) two different versions of Rails on your
system, and the first one being found is pre-3.0.x.

Try rails -v and which rails for starters…

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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On 21 Mar 2011, at 22:54, Hassan S. wrote:

That means you have (at least) two different versions of Rails on your
system, and the first one being found is pre-3.0.x.

Try rails -v and which rails for starters…

That was it. I now have a vague recollection of having installed Rails a
couple of years ago. The rogue binary was in /usr/bin. I should not
forget that lazy assumptions (like, I don’t have rails installed
already) will bite me on the arse!

Thanks very much.

Iain