# Rails Installation Fails - InstantRails 1.3a

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 6, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439 "2007-05-06T01:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RobertPhoenix)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439/1 "2007-05-06T01:47:45Z")

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I downloaded InstantRails 1.3a, and unzipped it to c:\InstantRails

I then ran

gem install rails --include-dependencies

in the Ruby Console Window

A lot of it worked, but I saw these errors (with a bit of surrounding  
output)

Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.3…  
Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.3…

lib/action\_controller/routing.rb:1061:30: ‘:’ not followed by  
identified or oper  
ator

lib/action\_controller/routing.rb:1065:39: ‘:’ not followed by  
identified or oper  
ator  
Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3…

I’m working from the book “Build your own Ruby on Rails Application”,  
and hoping that these were benign errors ( 😉 ) I continued and ran

rails shovell

That appeared to run OK, but then I tried to test the blank  
application and got this

C:\InstantRails\rails\_apps\shovell\>ruby script/server  
./script/…/config/boot.rb:29: undefined method `gem’ for main:Object  
(NoMethodE  
rror)  
from script/server:2

Can someone point me in the right direction to fix these problems, and  
get a little bit further into this.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RobertPhoenix)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439/2 "2007-05-06T09:30:09Z")

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RobertPhoenix wrote:

> Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3…  
> ./script/…/config/boot.rb:29: undefined method `gem’ for main:Object  
> (NoMethodE  
> rror)  
> from script/server:2
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction to fix these problems, and  
> get a little bit further into this.
> 
> Thanks.

I’m sorry this doesn’t answer your question, but InstantRails is up to  
version 1.7 using Rails 1.2.3 and Ruby 1.8.6.

Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Author:** ![RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RobertPhoenix)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439/3 "2007-05-06T21:24:13Z")

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Thanks for the response. I was trying to use 1.3a, because that is  
the version used in the book I am reading, and I’d like the text to  
match what I see - at least while I am learning (in particular I  
understand there has been some change in breakpoint client behavior)

I’m going to see if I can install the latest version of instant rails  
in parallel, and see if that has the same or different errors on my  
machine.

Robert.

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**Author:** ![RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RobertPhoenix)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439/4 "2007-05-07T07:57:47Z")

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I did an installation of 1.7, and everything appears to run OK.

So it appears that 1.3a will no longer create a usable environment.

On to the next problem!

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**Author:** ![RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@RobertPhoenix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/RobertPhoenix)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 8:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-installation-fails-instantrails-1-3a/103439/5 "2007-05-07T08:49:53Z")

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RobertPhoenix wrote:

> I did an installation of 1.7, and everything appears to run OK.
> 
> So it appears that 1.3a will no longer create a usable environment.
> 
> On to the next problem!

Good to know! 🙂  
Cheers  
Mohit.