# Rails3 beta3 is not installing properly **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-core\ **Created:** [April 14, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900 "2010-04-14T18:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spaquet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/spaquet/32/4785_2.png) [@spaquet](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/spaquet)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/1 "2010-04-14T18:03:40Z")
Looks like documentation is not installing properly for Rails3 beta3. Here is the error I'm facing : Successfully installed rails-3.0.0.beta3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.0.beta3... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)     No such file or directory - lib ---
**Author:** ![bitsweat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/bitsweat/32/591_2.png) [@bitsweat](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/bitsweat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/2 "2010-04-14T19:49:36Z")
Could you try uninstalling the previous beta gems first, then reinstalling the latest? jeremy ---
**Author:** ![Santiago\_Pastorino1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Santiago\_Pastorino1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Santiago_Pastorino1)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/3 "2010-04-14T20:30:04Z")
Fresh installation 2 minutes ago debian:~# gem install rails --pre Successfully installed activesupport-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed activemodel-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed actionpack-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed arel-0.3.3 Successfully installed activerecord-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed activeresource-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed actionmailer-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed railties-3.0.0.beta3 Successfully installed rails-3.0.0.beta3 9 gems installed Installing ri documentation for activesupport-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for activemodel-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for actionpack-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for arel-0.3.3... Installing ri documentation for activerecord-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for activeresource-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for railties-3.0.0.beta3... Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for activemodel-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for arel-0.3.3... Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for railties-3.0.0.beta3... Installing RDoc documentation for rails-3.0.0.beta3... ---
**Author:** ![radar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/radar/32/604_2.png) [@radar](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/radar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/4 "2010-04-14T20:31:20Z")
Not that I doubt it, but I am interested if this solves the problem. ---
**Author:** ![admin-magazin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@admin-magazin](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/admin-magazin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/5 "2010-04-22T16:12:18Z")
for me the following fix worked on Mac OS X Snow Leopard: “sudo mkdir /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-3.0.0.beta3/ lib” when you installed ruby 1.9 with macports. if you didn’t you can use “dtruss” on the gem installation to find the missing directory ---
**Author:** ![rifraf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@rifraf](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/rifraf)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails3-beta3-is-not-installing-properly/50900/6 "2010-05-03T17:07:04Z")
Just to confirm the same issue on Windows. I had to create the lib folder too: \Ruby19\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\rails-3.0.0.beta3\lib