# Radrails - Quick (if misplaced?) question

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-quick-if-misplaced-question/53802 "2006-02-14T18:14:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-quick-if-misplaced-question/53802/1 "2006-02-14T18:14:22Z")

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My apologies if this is the wrong place for this but…it should be  
really simple.

When I use a Generator in Radrails, nothing happens. I (believe) I have  
properly set the path to Ruby and still nothing. And, it doesn’t seem  
there is an error log to further diagnose what is happening.

I am using 0.5.3 on Windows. Am I missing something obvious?

As a P.S., is anyone particularly fond of any other Rails development  
environments? If so, what are the benefits or disadvantages relative to  
Radrails.

Thanks,

-Mark

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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-quick-if-misplaced-question/53802/2 "2006-02-14T18:41:42Z")

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Yeah, I’ve had that problem… and I always figured out that I was doing  
something wrong:  
the db connection wasn’t working, I didn’t have the names right, etc.  
Now, it would be  
nice if RadRails would tell you what’s wrong, but… I think they’re  
working on that.

In the meantime, you might try calling the generator script in a console  
and see what  
happens. Make sure your db stuff is right too…

b

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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-quick-if-misplaced-question/53802/3 "2006-02-14T18:53:54Z")

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I’ve had this issue as well (not too often though). I found that if I  
clicked on the project name  
in the rails file/folder view and then retried the generator, I found it  
worked. Kind of weird, magical even 🙂 , but weird seems to be my  
mantra  
lately. Anyway, this is just my two cents.

Regards,  
Brad.

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**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-quick-if-misplaced-question/53802/4 "2006-02-14T18:56:57Z")

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What error are you getting? I had what sounded like the same problem.  
What  
was happening was when I created a Rails project in RadRails the "rails  
 was not being called or was broken.

Dropping to a command prompt and running Rails and then  
using  
RadRails to do the generation is working fine.

Hope this helps

-Rob B.  
[http://www.robertbazinet.com](http://www.robertbazinet.com)