errors building rails app

Hello I can't seem to build a rails app, I am getting error with, 'rake db:create' as well as the general 'rails generate' command?

my linux box environment:

$ ruby -v ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]

$ gem -v 1.8.5

$ rails -v Rails 3.0.9

$ uname -a Linux karma 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here is the output for each:

$ rake db:create

(in /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/blog) rake aborted! uninitialized constant Rake::DSL /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2482:in `const_missing' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/tasklib.rb:8:in `<class:TaskLib>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/tasklib.rb:6:in `<module:Rake>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rake-0.9.2/lib/rake/tasklib.rb:3:in `<top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rdoc-3.8/lib/rdoc/task.rb:37:in `require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rdoc-3.8/lib/rdoc/task.rb:37:in `<top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake:2:in `require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake:2:in `<top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks.rb:15:in `load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks.rb:15:in `block in <top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks.rb:6:in `each' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/tasks.rb:6:in `<top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/application.rb:215:in `require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/application.rb:215:in `initialize_tasks' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/application.rb:139:in `load_tasks' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing' /home/yadav/dev/rails/tmp/blog/Rakefile:7:in `<top (required)>' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2373:in `load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2373:in `raw_load_rakefile' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2007:in `block in load_rakefile' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2058:in `standard_exception_handling' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:2006:in `load_rakefile' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake.rb:1991:in `run' /usr/local/bin/rake:31:in `<main>'

$ rails g scaffold title:string description:test

       invoke active_record /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators/base.rb:266:in `const_defined?': wrong constant name Title:string (NameError)          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators/base.rb:266:in `block in class_collisions'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators/base.rb:248:in `each'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators/base.rb:248:in `class_collisions'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators/named_base.rb:118:in `block in check_class_collision'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `block in invoke_all'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `each'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `map'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `invoke_all'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:226:in `dispatch'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:109:in `invoke'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:269:in `block in _invoke_for_class_method'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/shell.rb:74:in `with_padding'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:258:in `_invoke_for_class_method'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:150:in `_invoke_from_option_orm'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `block in invoke_all'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `each'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `map'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/invocation.rb:124:in `invoke_all'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/group.rb:226:in `dispatch'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/thor-0.14.6/lib/thor/base.rb:389:in `start'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/generators.rb:163:in `invoke'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands/generate.rb:10:in `<top (required)>'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `require'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `block in require'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `block in load_dependency'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:596:in `new_constants_in'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.0.9/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `require'          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.9/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'          from script/rails:6:in `require'          from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

installed gems

$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

abstract (1.0.0) actionmailer (3.0.9) actionpack (3.0.9) activemodel (3.0.9) activerecord (3.0.9) activeresource (3.0.9) activesupport (3.0.9) archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2) arel (2.1.3, 2.1.1, 2.0.10) authlogic (3.0.3) autotest (4.4.6) autotest-rails-pure (4.1.2) babosa (0.3.5) bcrypt-ruby (2.1.4) builder (3.0.0, 2.1.2) bundler (1.0.15) calendar_date_select (1.16.3, 1.16.2) cancan (1.6.5) cocaine (0.1.0) coffee-script (2.2.0) coffee-script-source (1.1.1) columnize (0.3.4, 0.3.3) daemon_controller (0.2.6) devise (1.4.2, 1.4.1) diff-lcs (1.1.2) erubis (2.7.0, 2.6.6) execjs (1.2.0) fastri (0.3.1.1) fastthread (1.0.7) file-tail (1.0.6) forgery (0.3.12, 0.3.10) friendly_id (3.2.1.1) grackle (0.1.10) gruff (0.3.6) hike (1.2.0, 1.1.0) horo (1.0.3) i18n (0.6.0, 0.5.0) json (1.5.3) linecache19 (0.5.12) mail (2.3.0, 2.2.19) mechanize (2.0.1) memcache-client (1.8.5) mime-types (1.16) minitest (2.3.1, 1.6.0) mocha (0.9.12) multi_json (1.0.3) net-http-digest_auth (1.1.1) net-http-persistent (1.8) nifty-generators (0.4.6) nokogiri (1.5.0, 1.4.6) oauth (0.4.5) orm_adapter (0.0.5) paperclip (2.3.15, 2.3.12) passenger (3.0.7) patron (0.4.13, 0.4.12) polyglot (0.3.1) rack (1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.3) rack-cache (1.0.2) rack-mount (0.8.1, 0.6.14) rack-ssl (1.3.2) rack-test (0.6.0, 0.5.7) rails (3.0.9) railties (3.0.9) rake (0.9.2, 0.8.7) rdoc (3.8, 2.5.8) rdoc-data (2.5.3) RedCloth (4.2.7) rmagick (2.13.1) rspec (2.6.0) rspec-core (2.6.4) rspec-expectations (2.6.0) rspec-mocks (2.6.0) rspec-rails (2.6.1) ruby-debug-base19 (0.11.25) ruby-debug19 (0.11.6) ruby-prof (0.10.8, 0.10.7) ruby_core_source (0.1.5) rubygems-update (1.8.5) sass (3.1.4, 3.1.3) sprockets (2.0.0.beta.10) spruz (0.2.11, 0.2.8) sqlite3 (1.3.3) thor (0.14.6) tilt (1.3.2) tiny_mce (0.1.4) tkri (0.9.5) treetop (1.4.9) tzinfo (0.3.29, 0.3.28) uglifier (1.0.0) w3c_validators (1.1.1) warden (1.0.4) webrat (0.7.3) webrobots (0.0.10, 0.0.9) will_paginate (2.3.15) wxruby (2.0.0 x86_64-linux) yajl-ruby (0.8.2) ZenTest (4.5.0)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6085610/rails-rake-problems-uninitialized-constant-rakedsl

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6085610/rails-rake-problems-uninitialized-constant-rakedsl that solved with ‘rake db:create’ only, i am still seeing the same error for, ‘rails generate…’

You left off the name of the resource to generate and went straight into the field definitions.

$ rails g scaffold title:string description:test

opps! you're right Kendall =) ... I feel like a Rails noob =)

Happens to everyone :wink: