Remote install of 1.2.6

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Hello,

Any help would be much appreciated as I am a total newbie. I know this topic has come up before, but I am still struggling with it.

I am trying to do a remote install of 1.2.6 because I bought a couple of books based on 1.2.x and I do not want to have to wrestle with errors caused by having a 2.x version while I am a rank beginner and trying to learn.

I keep getting an error message: ERROR: could not find rails locally or in a repository

When I go to gems.rubyforge.org and follow the link to see the available gems in my browser, it clearly shows all the old versions. However, if I do a gem list command, only 2.0.2.

It appears the older versions are no longer hosted for remote installation. Would somebody mind helping me with detailed instructions on manually installing an older version, including where to get and where to put all the files? Better yet, if there is a way to use gem to find and remotely install them, I would appreciate those instructions as well. Finally, why aren't the old versions hosted anymore?

One last thing... I am using Windows. I know, I know... but I am only in the very early stages of teaching myself FreeBSD, and I trying to reduce the number of variables in learning that, Ruby, and Rails all at the same time.

Again, many thanks.

Harry

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Have you tried:

gem install rails --version 1.2.6

I see all the gems still here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=307

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Charles,

When I do that (gem install rails --version 1.2.6) I get the following: ERROR: could not find rails locally or in a repository

and when I do the following: gem list rails --remote I get the following output in the list: ... rails (2.0.2) ...

There seems to be a discrepancy between what is listed as being available and what actually is.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks for your help... it is much appreciated.

Harry

Charles Quinn wrote:

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Harry Weeds wrote:

Charles,

When I do that (gem install rails --version 1.2.6) I get the following: ERROR: could not find rails locally or in a repository

and when I do the following: gem list rails --remote I get the following output in the list: ... rails (2.0.2) ...

There seems to be a discrepancy between what is listed as being available and what actually is.

Any other suggestions?

gems.rubyforge.org contains a link to the gems themselves. They are available, but somehow gem doesn't see them (had that happen to me, too, just an hour ago).

Just download what you need, and gem install rails-1.2.6.gem will do the rest (of course, done in the directory you downloaded the gems to).

- -- Phillip Gawlowski Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan

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Phillip,

Success, I think.

I downloaded it to the following path (I am running it off a flash drive): F:\PortableApps\RubyPortable\App\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.6>

I am not sure if that is the correct locaton, but it seems to work. Aside from continually telling me it needed other gems (i.e. actionmailer <= 1.3.6), and only generating documentation for rails and actionmailer, everything seems to be fine.

Thank you very much for your help.

Harry

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:

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Harry Weeds wrote:

Phillip,

Success, I think.

I downloaded it to the following path (I am running it off a flash drive): F:\PortableApps\RubyPortable\App\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.2.6>

I am not sure if that is the correct locaton, but it seems to work.

Depends: If it's the downloaded gems, it doesn't really matter. :stuck_out_tongue:

If the rails gem are installed there, that is the correct directory.

Thank you very much for your help.

No problem. Glad it' solved for you. :slight_smile: