Rails/Rake wrongly interpreting command-line???

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Hi,

I've been struggling to get Rails working properly on my Ubuntu box for a couple of weeks now - driving me mad...

The current problem is that the "rails" and "rake" commands seem to be wrongly intrepreting the command-line. For example, if I type:

~/$rails blog -d mysql

What I get is a directory called "blog" with a bunch of stuff in it AND a directory called "mysql" with the same bunch of stuff!

also, if after setting up database.yml correctly, then do

~/blog$rake db:create

what I get is yet another directory full of rubbish created also called "db:create"! Gaaaghhh!

The annoying thing is, I've tried *completely* uninstalling ruby, rails and rake and re-installing... AND it's still like this!!!!!

Help. Please.

(I'm sure I'm doing something really dumb, or missing something dumb, but I can't see it now for the red mist... gonna give up and go back to struts... ... ...)

Thanks, Geg

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Greg wrote:

Hi,

I've been struggling to get Rails working properly on my Ubuntu box for a couple of weeks now - driving me mad...

The current problem is that the "rails" and "rake" commands seem to be wrongly intrepreting the command-line. For example, if I type:

~/$rails blog -d mysql

What I get is a directory called "blog" with a bunch of stuff in it AND a directory called "mysql" with the same bunch of stuff!

Try -dmysql without the space and see what happens.

also, if after setting up database.yml correctly, then do

~/blog$rake db:create

what I get is yet another directory full of rubbish created also called "db:create"! Gaaaghhh!

And what is in that directory? That might help diagnose the problem.

Also, what versions of Ruby, Gem, and Rake do you have installed?

Best,

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Hi,

Both commands (rake and rails) create a full new application directory structure. So

~/$rails blog -d mysql

Creates two directories populated with new app sructure, one called "blog" and one called "mysql"

~/blog$rake db:create

Creates a new app structure called "db:create".

I've also tried

~/$rails blog -dmysql

This gives invalid option errors.

Versions: rake 0.8.1 ruby 1.8.7 rails 2.1.0

These were all installed using the Ubuntu package manager, but previously I have installed using gems, but still had the same problem.

Ubuntu is running inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox), but I can't see why that should be a problem (at least not of this nature)...?

Thanks, Greg

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Hi,

Thanks for your help. I solved the problem by completely removing all traces of rails, ruby, rake and gems from the system and then starting over, following the instructions given here:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/linux

to the letter. It appears there are a number of ways to install rails on Ubuntu, several of them "recommended" on various websites, but this is the only way that worked for me...

Thanks again for your help, Greg