Please help Rails project can not be created

luislavena · May 24, 2011, 7:38pm

I have just update to ubuntu 11.04.
since that I can not create a new Rails project.

Mark@Mark-Satellite-A300D:~$ rails new Test
Can’t initialize a new Rails application within the directory of
another, please change to a non-Rails directory first.
Type ‘rails’ for help.

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 7:45pm

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM, hoboy Hoboy [email protected]
wrote:

I have just update to ubuntu 11.04.
since that I can not create a new Rails project.

Mark@Mark-Satellite-A300D:~$ rails new Test
Can’t initialize a new Rails application within the directory of
another, please change to a non-Rails directory first.
Type ‘rails’ for help.

As the error message says, you are already in a Rails project directory.
Go back and try again.

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 7:47pm

That error message seems pretty clear. You’re already in a directory
that is
a rails application.

Also just as another note, “Test” is not a good name to give your
application. You should avoid using keywords like that as the name of
your
application.

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 8:39pm

On May 24, 7:07pm, hoboy Hoboy [email protected] wrote:

You are telling me that when I login into ubuntu my I go directly on
Mark@Mark-Satellite-A300D:~$.
you are telling that this is an rails directory ?
that does not make a sense

Well at least rails thinks it’s a rails app. Maybe you previously
generated a rails app in your home directory (rather than in a
subfolder) at some previous point in time, or moved the contents of a
rails app into your home folder

Fred

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 9:32pm

This is likely what’s happening. WHat’s the output of the following
commands?

ls -l
which rails

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 8:07pm

Tim S. wrote in post #1000680:

That error message seems pretty clear. You’re already in a directory
that is
a rails application.

Also just as another note, “Test” is not a good name to give your
application. You should avoid using keywords like that as the name of
your
application.

You are telling me that when I login into ubuntu my I go directly on
Mark@Mark-Satellite-A300D:~$.
you are telling that this is an rails directory ?
that does not make a sense

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 10:29pm

Tim S. wrote in post #1000707:

This is likely what’s happening. WHat’s the output of the following
commands?

ls -l
which rails

luc@luc-Satellite-A300D:~$ ls -l
total 21604
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:15 Aptana Studio 3
Workspace
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:42 bea
drwxr-xr-x 5 luc luc 4096 2011-04-10 12:08 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 db
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:25 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 18:09 DEVS
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-19 19:14 doc
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-05-22 13:27 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 4 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 18:08 Downloads
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 179 2011-02-28 18:13 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 19:15 glassfish-3.0.1
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 18:42 glassfish-3.1
drwxr-xr-x 4 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 14:56 IdeaProjects
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:50 jdeveloper
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 09:11 jedit
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:16 lucRails
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:26 lucworkspace
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Music
drwxr-xr-x 22 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 19:14 netbeans-6.9.1
drwxr-xr-x 22 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 18:52 netbeans-7.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:29 NetBeansProjects
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:39 Oracle
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 5 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 public
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x 25 luc luc 12288 2011-05-22 17:49 ruby-1.9.2-p0
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 10787899 2011-05-22 17:07 ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 24 luc luc 12288 2011-05-22 17:41 ruby-1.9.2-p180
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 11158935 2011-05-22 17:39 ruby-1.9.2-p180.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-04-10 12:08 script
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 7 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 test
drwxr-xr-x 6 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:13 untitled folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 vendor
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 19:54 workspace
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-04-16 17:46 workspaces

luc@luc-Satellite-A300D:~$ which rails
/home/luc/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/rails
luc@luc-Satellite-A300D:~$

hoboy · May 24, 2011, 10:45pm

On 24 May 2011 21:29, hoboy Hoboy [email protected] wrote:

Workspace
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:42 bea
drwxr-xr-x 5 luc luc 4096 2011-04-10 12:08 config

That looks like a bit of Rails project

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 db

and that

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:25 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 18:09 DEVS
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-19 19:14 doc

yup

drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-05-22 13:27 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 4 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 18:08 Downloads
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 179 2011-02-28 18:13 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 19:15 glassfish-3.0.1
drwxr-xr-x 8 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 18:42 glassfish-3.1
drwxr-xr-x 4 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 14:56 IdeaProjects
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:50 jdeveloper
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 09:11 jedit
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 lib

curiouser and curiouser

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 log

and again

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:16 lucRails
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:26 lucworkspace
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Music
drwxr-xr-x 22 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 19:14 netbeans-6.9.1
drwxr-xr-x 22 luc luc 4096 2011-04-21 18:52 netbeans-7.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:29 NetBeansProjects
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-31 15:39 Oracle
drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 5 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 public

and again

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x 25 luc luc 12288 2011-05-22 17:49 ruby-1.9.2-p0
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 10787899 2011-05-22 17:07 ruby-1.9.2-p0.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 24 luc luc 12288 2011-05-22 17:41 ruby-1.9.2-p180
-rw-r–r-- 1 luc luc 11158935 2011-05-22 17:39 ruby-1.9.2-p180.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-04-10 12:08 script

It is getting mighty suspicious

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-02-28 18:26 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 7 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 test

yet more

drwxr-xr-x 6 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 tmp

that one could be real I suppose

drwxr-xr-x 2 luc luc 4096 2011-05-24 20:13 untitled folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 luc luc 4096 2011-03-04 23:20 vendor

That one is bit of a killer.

It certainly looks like you have accidentally created a rails app in
the home folder at some point. There is no app directory but perhaps
you have already removed that one. I suggest looking in all the
directories above to make sure they do not contain useful data and if
they do not then removing them.

Colin