Hello,
I've just installed Ruby on windows xp - these are the versions I'm using.
Ruby 1.8.6(path 287), gem 1.3.4 and rails 1.2.2 .

I am unable to get rails to load. The command "rails -v" displays the following error:

<mylocaldir>/Ruby/bin/rails:19:in `load': no such file to load -- "<mylocaldir>/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.2/bin/rails" (LoadError)
from <mylocaldir>/Ruby/bin/rails:19

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, I think I followed all the steps mentioned in chapter 1.

Thanks!

Hi shbrat,

does <mylocaldir> contain a space (e.g. C:\Program Files\Ruby)? If so, you may have hit a RubyGems bug.

In that case, I suggest that you uninstall Ruby and reinstall it in a directory path without spaces (e.g., C:\Ruby). Alternatively, you can try the workaround described within the bug report I linked to above.

Please let me know if this fixes your problem.

Cheers,
Antonio

PS: The book is probably easier to follow with Rails 2.2.2. You can install it by running:

Thanks for your reply, Antonio.

As you mentioned, I had a space in my directory structure. Having tried many workarounds, I finally uninstalled Ruby and then installed InstantRails.

It seems to be working fine now. I'll surely keep that in mind next time I install Ruby.

Thanks again!!

No problem, shbrat. I'm glad that you are up and running.

Cheers,
Antonio