# No rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-rails/113144>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-rails/113144 "2007-08-28T03:18:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/diltonm)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-rails/113144/1 "2007-08-28T03:18:47Z")

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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.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down) 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](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

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**Author:** ![diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/diltonm)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-rails/113144/2 "2007-08-28T03:21:48Z")

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Never mind I guess, I had a ‘find’ runnning and it was found at: /var/  
lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails so I can set up an alias to there.

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**Author:** ![diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@diltonm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/diltonm)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-rails/113144/3 "2007-08-28T05:43:58Z")

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Hi,  
same error i found but when i start Consol once again then it works for  
me…

Enjoy  
Arun

On 28/08/07, diltonm [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Installing ri documentation for rake-0.7.3…  
> > Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.2.3…

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Arun A.

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