# Newbie question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 13, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575 "2009-01-13T10:29:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/technology)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575/1 "2009-01-13T10:29:01Z")

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I’m on OS X 10.5.6 and am trying to run the blog demo app at  
[http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting\_started\_with\_rails.html](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started_with_rails.html)  
. (I have installed rails 2.2)

But there seems to be a problem with sqlite. After starting the server  
(from the blog dir) and then entering the url

http:/localhost:3000/home/index

I get an error in the browser saying "unable to load sqlite3 although  
it is indeed installed.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,  
Jim

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**Author:** ![technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/technology)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575/2 "2009-01-13T13:15:17Z")

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what happens if you point to [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

Jason

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**Author:** ![technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/technology)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575/3 "2009-01-13T13:48:59Z")

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Are you sure that you have the sqlite3 gem installed on your machine? Is  
it  
listed if you type ‘gem list’ at the command line?

Eifion

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**Author:** ![technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/technology)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575/4 "2009-01-13T22:35:11Z")

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The only gem with sqlite in the name returned by “gems list” is  
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4). Do I need another?

Jim

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**Author:** ![technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@technology](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/technology)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question/157575/5 "2009-01-13T22:32:49Z")

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The main page appears as expected.