# Problem getting rails 3 to work

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-getting-rails-3-to-work/194616>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 8, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-getting-rails-3-to-work/194616 "2010-09-08T02:02:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-getting-rails-3-to-work/194616/1 "2010-09-08T02:02:12Z")

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i can’t seem to get rails 3 to work on my linux system, i have built  
ruby 1.9.2-p0 from source, and i have seeing some issues

1. when I type ‘bundle install’, i get the following error?

Could not locate Gemfile

1. rake is broken

i can’t seem to get rake working with rails 3 using ruby 1.9.2, i get  
the following error when i type rake -v

yadav@vision:~$ rake -v  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:340:in `bin_path': can't find executable rake for rake-0.8.7 (Gem::Exception) from /usr/local/bin/rake:19:in`’

gems i have install are:

abstract (1.0.0)  
actionmailer (3.0.0)  
actionpack (3.0.0)  
activemodel (3.0.0)  
activerecord (3.0.0)  
activeresource (3.0.0)  
activesupport (3.0.0)  
arel (1.0.1)  
builder (2.1.2)  
bundler (1.0.0)  
calendar\_date\_select (1.16.1)  
erubis (2.6.6)  
grackle (0.1.10)  
gruff (0.3.6)  
i18n (0.4.1)  
json (1.4.6)  
mail (2.2.5)  
mechanize (1.0.0)  
mime-types (1.16)  
minitest (1.6.0)  
nokogiri (1.4.3.1)  
oauth (0.4.3)  
patron (0.4.8)  
polyglot (0.3.1)  
rack (1.2.1)  
rack-mount (0.6.13)  
rack-test (0.5.4)  
rails (3.0.0)  
railties (3.0.0)  
rake (0.8.7)  
rdoc (2.5.8)  
RedCloth (4.2.3)  
rmagick (2.13.1)  
sqlite3-ruby (1.3.1)  
thor (0.14.0)  
treetop (1.4.8)  
tzinfo (0.3.23)

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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-getting-rails-3-to-work/194616/2 "2010-09-08T02:25:01Z")

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On 10-09-07 08:01 PM, Rajinder Y. wrote:

> the following error when i type rake -v
> 
> yadav@vision:~$ rake -v  
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:340:in `bin_path': can't find executable rake for rake-0.8.7 (Gem::Exception) from /usr/local/bin/rake:19:in`’
> 
> gems i have install are:

for issue 1) i realize i didn’t cd into my rails project folder before  
executing the command, that seem to be working fine, however still  
having issue with rake, reinstalling rake didn’t fix the error i am  
seeing