Rails Installation Fails - InstantRails 1.3a

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I downloaded InstantRails 1.3a, and unzipped it to c:\InstantRails

I then ran

gem install rails --include-dependencies

in the Ruby Console Window

A lot of it worked, but I saw these errors (with a bit of surrounding output)

Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.3... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.3...

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1061:30: ':' not followed by identified or oper ator

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1065:39: ':' not followed by identified or oper ator Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3...

I'm working from the book "Build your own Ruby on Rails Application", and hoping that these were benign errors ( :wink: ) I continued and ran

rails shovell

That appeared to run OK, but then I tried to test the blank application and got this

C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\shovell>ruby script/server ./script/../config/boot.rb:29: undefined method `gem' for main:Object (NoMethodE rror)         from script/server:2

Can someone point me in the right direction to fix these problems, and get a little bit further into this.

Thanks.

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RobertPhoenix wrote:

I downloaded InstantRails 1.3a, and unzipped it to c:\InstantRails

I then ran

gem install rails --include-dependencies

in the Ruby Console Window

A lot of it worked, but I saw these errors (with a bit of surrounding output)

Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.15.3... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.3...

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1061:30: ':' not followed by identified or oper ator

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1065:39: ':' not followed by identified or oper ator Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.3.3...

I'm working from the book "Build your own Ruby on Rails Application", and hoping that these were benign errors ( :wink: ) I continued and ran

rails shovell

That appeared to run OK, but then I tried to test the blank application and got this

C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\shovell>ruby script/server ./script/../config/boot.rb:29: undefined method `gem' for main:Object (NoMethodE rror)         from script/server:2

Can someone point me in the right direction to fix these problems, and get a little bit further into this.

Thanks.

I'm sorry this doesn't answer your question, but InstantRails is up to version 1.7 using Rails 1.2.3 and Ruby 1.8.6.

Cheers Mohit.

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Thanks for the response. I was trying to use 1.3a, because that is the version used in the book I am reading, and I'd like the text to match what I see - at least while I am learning (in particular I understand there has been some change in breakpoint client behavior)

I'm going to see if I can install the latest version of instant rails in parallel, and see if that has the same or different errors on my machine.

Robert.

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I did an installation of 1.7, and everything appears to run OK.

So it appears that 1.3a will no longer create a usable environment.

On to the next problem!

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RobertPhoenix wrote:

I did an installation of 1.7, and everything appears to run OK.

So it appears that 1.3a will no longer create a usable environment.

On to the next problem!

Good to know! :slight_smile: Cheers Mohit.