# Newbie question for installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 29, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209 "2008-08-29T11:44:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209/1 "2008-08-29T11:44:07Z")

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Hi all…  
just something really confused.  
Today I downloaded “ruby186-26.exe” according the tutorial…  
then have it installed without problem  
then I use “gem install rails --include–dependencies” to get rails  
then when I use “rails testabc” for my first application  
I got following errors:  
.  
…  
…  
create script/process/reaper  
create script/process/spawner  
create script/process/inspector  
create script/runner  
create script/server  
create script/plugin  
create public/dispatch.rb  
create public/dispatch.cgi  
create public/dispatch.fcgi  
create public/404.html  
(erb):9:in `template': compile error (SyntaxError) (erb):9: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting $end from c:/ror/lib/ ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/../lib/rails_generator/commands.rb:287:in`te  
mplate’  
from  
c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/…/lib/rails\_generato  
r/commands.rb:365:in `render_file' from c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/../lib/rails_generato r/commands.rb:363:in`open’  
from  
c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/…/lib/rails\_generato  
r/commands.rb:363:in `render_file' from c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/../lib/rails_generato r/commands.rb:246:in`file’  
from  
c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/…/lib/rails\_generato  
r/commands.rb:245:in `open' from c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/../lib/rails_generato r/commands.rb:245:in`file’  
from  
c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/…/lib/rails\_generato  
r/commands.rb:284:in `template' ... 6 levels... from c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/../lib/rails_generato r/scripts/../scripts.rb:31:in`run’  
from c:/ror/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/bin/rails:17  
from c:/ror/bin/rails:16:in `load’  
from c:/ror/bin/rails:16

anyone has an idea？  
thx…

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**Author:** ![dreamramon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dreamramon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dreamramon)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209/2 "2008-08-29T13:30:12Z")

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> (erb):9: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting $end

From what I’ve heard, recently patched ruby 1.8.6 has problems with  
count() in rails. The solution was something like to redefine count().  
Please check google.

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**Author:** ![dreamramon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dreamramon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dreamramon)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209/3 "2008-08-29T13:31:09Z")

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snitko wrote:

> > (erb):9: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting $end
> 
> From what I’ve heard, recently patched ruby 1.8.6 has problems with  
> count() in rails. The solution was something like to redefine count().  
> Please check google.

hmm, It’s just a default installation…

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209/4 "2008-08-29T13:49:07Z")

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snitko wrote:

> > hmm, It’s just a default installation…  
> > What’s your ‘ruby --vesrion’ output?

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]  
Rails 2.1.0

I used ruby186-26.exe from official site.

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-for-installation/147209/5 "2008-08-29T13:37:52Z")

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> hmm, It’s just a default installation…  
> What’s your ‘ruby --vesrion’ output?