# Rails didn't install correctly

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 28, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-didnt-install-correctly/54577 "2005-12-28T19:28:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-didnt-install-correctly/54577/1 "2005-12-28T19:28:35Z")

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Hi all,

I already sent this to the Rails list, but I figure someone here might  
know  
how to troubleshoot this.

# Apparently rails didn’t install correctly on my Mandrake 10.0 system.

# [slitt@mydesk work]$ rails demo /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:204:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem rails (> 0) (Gem::LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:141:in `activate’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in `require_gem_with_options' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in `require\_gem’ from /usr/bin/rails:17 [slitt@mydesk work]$

What is “RubyGem rails (\> 0)”?

I installed rails with this command as root:

gem install rails --include-dependencies

It errored out (can’t remember what it didn’t find) so I ran it again  
and it  
said it installed successfully.

My Mandrake 10.0 came with Ruby 1.8.1 which is insufficient for rails,  
so I  
installed ruby 1.8.4 in /usr/local/bin, and then renamed the ruby in  
/usr/bin  
to ruby.1.8.1, and then set up a symlink from /usr/bin/ruby  
to /usr/local/bin/ruby. At that point, running Ruby brought up 1.8.4.

I have no idea what the error message meant by “RubyGem rails (\> 0)”.  
Can  
anyone give me some hints on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve L.

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