Getting Started

Experienced developer here just attacking Ruby on Rails.

So, I bought myself a book (Beginning Ruby on Rails - Holzner) and
proceeded to follow the tutorial for the first project. I start up
Webrick which seems to be working properly. Then, after
editing/creating the two simple files per the instructions I point my
browser at http://localhost:3000/app/greeting. Instead of seeing the
result I was expecting, I got:

=====================
We’re sorry, but something went wrong.
We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it
shortly.

Now, I’ve actually tried a couple of different tutorials with the same
result. When this is displayed in my browser, I also get this webrick
logging (below) in the dos box it is running in, but have no idea what
it means.

Since I’ve been stuck on this a couple days if anyone can point me to an
approach to getting past this I will greatly appreciate it. Everything
I’ve done with the tutorial seems to have worked correctly through this
process – the rails command, the generate controller, starting webrick,
all seem straightforward and like they’re working as expected.

TIA

Dave

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Fri Mar 20 00:12:27 -0500 2009
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
no such file to load – sqlite3
C:/Program
Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:i
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C:/Program
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C:/Program
Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_r
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connection’
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connectio n' C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_r ecord/query_cache.rb:9:in cache’
C:/Program
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C:/Program
Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_con
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C:/Program
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C:/Program
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C:/Program
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C:/Program
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C:/Program
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service' C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in run’
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start_thread' C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in start’
C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in
start_thread' C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in start’
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C:/Program
Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:i
n `require’
script/server:3

Quoting David J. [email protected]:

=====================
Since I’ve been stuck on this a couple days if anyone can point me to an
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
no such file to load – sqlite3
[snip]

The sqlite3 gem is not installed. This is now the default database
adapter.
Rails is a fast moving target and tutorials are quickly out of date. It
used
to be MySQL (at least on Linux and I think MacOS). If you have
installed a
different database adapter, set the correct value in
config\database.yml.
Otherwise, install the sqlite3.

HTH,
Jeffrey