Newbie install rail on fedora 8

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Hi there,

I'm a newbie, and would really appreciate if someone could give me a pointer to a solution to rail installation on fedora 8 below. I know Ubuntu is probably a lot easier, but I have a need to get this to work on fedora 8.

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Uh, see any differences there? :slight_smile:

Or to put it another way: do `sudo gem env` and `gem env` return the same results?

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Thanks Hassan. In my case, both commands show the same. However, I might just dig myself in a hole here. After trying a couple commands, I now have a new problem.

-bash-3.2$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies INFO: `gem install -y` is now default and will be removed INFO: use --ignore-dependencies to install only the gems you list ERROR: could not find gem rails locally or in a repository

-bash-3.2$ sudo gem update Updating installed gems ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)     bad response Moved Permanently 301 (RubyGems.org | your community gem host)

-bash-3.2$ sudo gem env RubyGems Environment:   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.2.0   - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-linux]   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:     - ruby     - x86-linux   - GEM PATHS:      - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8   - GEM CONFIGURATION:      - :update_sources => true      - :verbose => true      - :benchmark => false      - :backtrace => false      - :bulk_threshold => 1000   - REMOTE SOURCES:      - http://gems.rubyforge.org/

-bash-3.2$ gem env RubyGems Environment:   - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.2.0   - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-linux]   - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8   - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby   - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin   - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:     - ruby     - x86-linux   - GEM PATHS:      - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8   - GEM CONFIGURATION:      - :update_sources => true      - :verbose => true      - :benchmark => false      - :backtrace => false      - :bulk_threshold => 1000   - REMOTE SOURCES:      - http://gems.rubyforge.org/

Thanks, Roger L.

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fedora 8?

That was my first peak. Werewolf is it?

I’m on fedora 13. When I was on 12 I was able to use the rails guides to complete their tuts; but, at the time I was unaware of … a lot. How strange everything worked.

Anywho. This makes sense:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm

This is fedora specific (not what your asking; but, still informative):

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/setting-up-a-rails-server-and-deploying-with-capistrano-on-fedora-from-scratch/

I usually just su - and operate as root for all the setup stuff. Totally not answering your question; but, would like to see the answer.

It would be nice if f14 and ror3 had a one command fresh start. It sounds like we need a compatibility harmony wheel…

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Yikes, that's old. Do this:

$ sudo gem --source http://gems.github.com $ sudo gem --source http://gemcutter.org/ $ sudo gem update --system

and then try your rails install again.

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Thank you all.

Hassan, The commands gave me other errors, but the link eventually pointed me to this page to download rubygem manually and reinstall.

http://rubygems.org/pages/download#formats

It works fine after that. Thanks again.

Roger L.