troubles for installing rails-1.2.6 on ubuntu 8.04

on ubuntu 8.04, rails-2.0.2 as default ,now i want to instal rails-1.2.6 first i have download these gem packages and install all of then successfully include rails-1.2.6 activesupport-1.4.4.gem, activerecord-1.15.6.gem, actionpack-1.13.6.gem, actionmailer-1.3.6.gem, rails-1.2.6.gem

but even installing was finished successfully and when i try to create new application using rails-1.2.6 i have got the following massage "The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install rails bash: rails: command not found" i have installed the rails-1.2.6. but in massage said not installed ,so anybody can help .thanks

it is a bit of an exacting exercise in semantics to get it to go

here is a thread but just of it is below.

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/174c9b9d5cd6ec1a/70f12b323a5d4ae5?lnk=gst&q=prior+version#70f12b323a5d4ae5

rails _1.2.6_ myproject

Thats: rails<space>_1.2.6_<space>myprojectname

Good luck

thanks you .i have tried but it still doesn`t work .and gems on my system as follow

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