What version of rails am I running?

rubyonrails-talk
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Sorry to ask a question that appears like the one posed by a n00b. (Maybe I am going blind, seriously).

I have searched the forum for it, but couldn't find it.

How can I tell which version of rails I am running? Doing "rails -v" fails. That's another question -- why does it fail -- why can't it tell me the version string?

-Kedar

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In what way does it fail ? That aside, rails -v tells you what the latest version of rails on your computer is, which isn't the same thing as what version your rails apps are running. That can be controlled by - having RAILS_GEM_VERSION set to something in environment.rb - having rails frozen into vendor/rails

when you run script/console or script/server it should tell you what version of rails its loading.

Fred

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Hi there Kedar,

Try script/about or, alternatively you can do a gem list. If you have only one version of rails installed gem list will indicate this.

HTH, Schalk

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:

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Yes, Ubuntu puts their own Rails binscript (written in *bash*. ugh!) in there because apparently they hate you and the whole of the Rails community for some reason.

Try something like "rails --version". And file a bug with Ubuntu because they're the ones who maintain their stupid script.

--Jeremy

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To go one step farther, I would recommend installing RubyGems from source and then installing Rails through RubyGems. Much better situation.

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Bobnation wrote:

To go one step farther, I would recommend installing RubyGems from source and then installing Rails through RubyGems. Much better situation.

On Jan 18, 7:24�pm, "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcana...@gmail.com>

Maybe then http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Installation should prefer RubyGems installation to "apt-get install ruby" (i.e. swap the order).

-Kedar

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Kedar Mhaswade wrote:

Bobnation wrote:

To go one step farther, I would recommend installing RubyGems from source and then installing Rails through RubyGems. Much better situation.

On Jan 18, 7:24�pm, "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcana...@gmail.com>

Maybe then http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Installation should prefer RubyGems installation to "apt-get install ruby" (i.e. swap the order).

-Kedar

I think Ubuntu screws this up further because apparently their rails script does not identify -d mysql to mean database to use. Instead, it treats it as a folder, apparently, for example, if I did: $> rails -d mysql people => this rails is from apt-get install rails

I get two folders created: "mysql" and "people".

Instead, if I installed RubyGems and did gem update --system and then used the rails from there, it works better. Unfortunately, this rails script is located in /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin and the Ubuntu (faulty) script is in /usr/bin. So, I need to use /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/ before /usr/bin in my PATH!

I think the community should be aware of this.

Thank you! -Kedar