Women in Technology

Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		installation issues
Date:		2005-03-22 18:52:35
From:		curth
Response to: installation issues
A new version of Rails was released today, and it appears that it has a problem installing on Windows. I was able to reproduce it, and I also found a workaround. The workaround is to explicitly install the old version of Rails. You'd first have to uninstall each of Rails components that got installed before it blew up, but I think it would be easier just to start over and uninstall Ruby (either from the start menu entry or from add-remove programs). Then reinstall Ruby and use this command to install Rails: gem install rails -v 0.10.1 That worked for me. I will report this problem to the Rails team.

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• installation issues
  2005-03-23 10:06:42  sudaca [View]
  
  
  Thank you very much Curth. I was having the same problems and was going nuts trying to find any info on this.
• mkdir not automatic?
  2005-03-28 06:28:01  Teiman [View]
  
  
  w:\>rails cookbook
  create
  Invalid argument - *
  
  w:\>dir
  
  Volume in drive W is PE Serial number is C531:B78D
  Directory of W:\*
  
  28/03/05 16:03 <DIR> .
  28/03/05 16:03 <DIR> ..
  0 bytes in 0 files and 2 dirs
  5.674.467.328 bytes free
  
  w:\>mkdir test
  
  w:\>rails test
  exists
  create app/apis
  create app/controllers
  create app/helpers
  create app/models
  ...
  
  Humm???... looks like the new version fail to create the start dir on windows.