So it turns out that I can't create rails applications just anywhere on my machine. They need to be in my www directory as I had set it up for apache. Thing is, I'm using webrick to run rails so apache isn't really in the picture. Is there an environment variable or something that sets the rails base to a certain dir?
What makes you think that?
Or to put it another way: you haven't even begun to provide enough
information to define a problem, much less help solve it. 