# Updating Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 8, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350 "2007-01-08T06:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrrobert)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350/1 "2007-01-08T06:39:00Z")

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I run:

sudo gem update rails

To get:  
Updating installed gems…  
Attempting remote update of rails  
Successfully installed rails-1.1.6  
Gems: [rails] updated

But:  
rails --version

Still yields:  
Rails 1.0.0

Why?

Thanks for any feedback

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**Author:** ![mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrrobert)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350/2 "2007-01-08T11:06:11Z")

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Hi, you can do the following to update to 1.2 RC 2:

gem install rails --source [http://gems.rubyonrails.org](http://gems.rubyonrails.org)  
–include-dependencies

Good luck,

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrrobert)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350/3 "2007-01-08T11:35:17Z")

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2007/1/8, Bob C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> But:  
> rails --version

Are you using GNU/Linux? If so, did you installed Rails 1.0.0 from  
gems too? Or using your distro’s packages? What about “gem list”?

See ya!

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**Author:** ![mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrrobert)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350/4 "2007-01-08T20:38:41Z")

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> But:  
> rails --version
> 
> Still yields:  
> Rails 1.0.0
> 
> Why?

What happens when you do a “which rails” and “whereis rails”?

-faisal

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**Author:** ![mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@mrrobert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrrobert)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-rails/81350/5 "2007-01-08T19:05:46Z")

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I am using Mac OSX.

gem list  
yeilds:  
…  
rails (1.1.6)  
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,  
and ORM.  
…

Here it gets funny:  
bob-cobers-computer:~/PRJGAME/Rings2 bobcober$ /opt/local/bin/rails  
–version  
Rails 1.1.6  
bob-cobers-computer:~/PRJGAME/Rings2 bobcober$ which rails  
/opt/local/bin/rails  
bob-cobers-computer:~/PRJGAME/Rings2 bobcober$ rails --version  
Rails 1.0.0  
bob-cobers-computer:~/PRJGAME/Rings2 bobcober$ /usr/bin/rails --version  
Rails 1.0.0

I am going to delete the older one in /usr/bin, but I am confused.

If ‘which’ lists /opt/local/bin why is it still using /usr/bin ?

Thanks for any feedback

Imobach González Sosa wrote:

> 2007/1/8, Bob C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):
> 
> > But:  
> > rails --version
> 
> Are you using GNU/Linux? If so, did you installed Rails 1.0.0 from  
> gems too? Or using your distro’s packages? What about “gem list”?
> 
> See ya!