# Setting up ROR on my VPS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [October 7, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538 "2007-10-07T02:13:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/georgeuoa)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538/1 "2007-10-07T02:13:55Z")

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Does the script/console need to be working on the production server?

It doesn’t work on my server. I get the following error when I try to  
use it. I was just wondering if this is an indication that ROR isn’t  
installed properly on my server.

[root@vps test]# ./script/console  
Loading development environment.  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- readline (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in`require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in`each’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in`setup’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start’  
from /usr/local/bin/irb:13

Thanks in advance for any insight,

George

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**Author:** ![georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/georgeuoa)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538/2 "2007-10-07T17:41:26Z")

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> Does the script/console need to be working on the production server?  
> No, script/console does not need to work for your rails application to  
> run.

To fix this issue you need to install the readline-devel package, if  
you are using a distro with yum, this is how you would fix this:

yum install readline-devel  
cd /path/to/ruby/source/ext/readline  
ruby extconf.rb  
make  
make install

–  
Joe C.

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**Author:** ![georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/georgeuoa)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538/3 "2007-10-07T22:39:43Z")

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As Joe already sad, the rails console do not has to work in order that  
your Rails web application run.

I suppose that the real question was does rails console run on  
production servers.  
The rails console should be operational and at you service on any  
platform with properly installed ruby and ruby on rails.

The error message that is presented is from missing gem.  
You should be aware of all gems that your application use or you’ll be  
seeing this kind of messages a lot.  
We all have been in your schusses at one time or another. 🙂

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**Author:** ![georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@georgeuoa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/georgeuoa)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ror-on-my-vps/116538/4 "2007-10-15T23:28:27Z")

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Does your app work in production? You might need to pass the  
RAILS\_ENV=production before your ./script/console or make sure you are  
not missing any gems in your server.

Good luck,

Peter

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