# Problem installing rails with rake/gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails-with-rake-gem/48589>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 22, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails-with-rake-gem/48589 "2005-11-22T14:09:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rails-with-rake-gem/48589/1 "2005-11-22T14:09:06Z")

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Hi all,  
I am a newbie to ruby and gems and rails …  
I have ruby  
ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]

As far as i understand, gem is a package manager. something like rpm.  
So I assume that it should be possible to install rails using

1. the tgz and then running rake (I installed rake 0.6.2 )(like  
building from source)
2. Download the rails-0.14.3.gem file and then install with gem ( like  
installing an rpm from the rpm package)
3. use gem and download and update/install everything from the net. (  
This is my last option as my connection keeps going down)

What I did was to first try installing ruby and then rake  
successfully,then unzip rails-0.14.3.tgz  
and run rake on the Rakefile distributed.  
It didnt work …Got the following errors.

/usr/local/src/rails \> rake  
(in /usr/local/src/rails)  
/usr/local/bin/ruby -Ilib:test  
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb”  
rake aborted!  
Test failures

Second I installed rubygems from rubygems-0.8.11.tgz .All i did was to  
do  
ruby setup.rb  
that worked .

But now whenever I type  
gem  
I get this error

/usr/local/bin/gem:3:in `require’: No such file to load – rubygems  
(LoadError)  
from /usr/local/bin/gem:3

Does anyone have a clue.?  
Vivek