I used the copy of gems in the latest Ubuntu and followed the
instructions Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. to install Rails but
after a seemingly successful installation; rails fails to execute? Is
it just a matter of updating my path?
xxxxx@sitename:~$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
Password:
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Successfully installed rails-1.2.3
Successfully installed rake-0.7.3
Successfully installed activesupport-1.4.2
Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.3
Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.3
Successfully installed actionmailer-1.3.3
Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.2.3
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.3…
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-1.4.2…
Installing ri documentation for activerecord-1.15.3…
Installing ri documentation for actionpack-1.13.3…
Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3…
Installing ri documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-1.4.2…
Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.3…
xxxxx@sitename:~$ mkdir code
xxxxx@sitename:~$ cd code/
xxxxx@sitename:~/code$ rails testapp
The program ‘rails’ is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install rails
Make sure you have the ‘universe’ component enabled
bash: rails: command not found