# Rails 1.2.1 console not working

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 20, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-1-console-not-working/82776 "2007-01-20T19:31:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stickstone)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-1-console-not-working/82776/1 "2007-01-20T19:31:53Z")

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I’m running Rails 1.2.1, Ubuntu Server 6.10 and my console isn’t  
running… same project checked out via SVN runs in console on my  
Windows machine.

error:

brian@rails-server:~/work/mediabump$ ruby script/console  
Loading development environment.  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/commands/console.rb:25:in  
`exec': No such file or directory - irb -r irb/completion -r script/../config/../config/environment -r console_app -r console_with_helpers --simple-prompt (Errno::ENOENT) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/commands/console.rb:25 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in  
`require’  
from script/console:3

Any help?

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**Author:** ![stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stickstone)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-1-console-not-working/82776/2 "2007-01-20T20:00:21Z")

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Never mind, it looks like I don’t have IRB installed…

Brian C. wrote:

> I’m running Rails 1.2.1, Ubuntu Server 6.10 and my console isn’t  
> running… same project checked out via SVN runs in console on my  
> Windows machine.

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**Author:** ![stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stickstone)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-1-console-not-working/82776/3 "2007-01-20T20:27:17Z")

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On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:31 +0100, Brian C. wrote:

> script/…/config/…/config/environment -r console\_app -r
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> Any help?

Well, not to state the obvious,but if you look at the gem path above,  
you are using rails-1.1.6 , not the 1.2.1 that you think you’re using.

Do the Windows and Linux machines both use the same version of rails? I  
would check to see what version the Windows machine is using, since it  
seems to work on that machine.  
matt