This seems to be a basic thing: run rails under ruby and execute the
ensuing system. Every Ruby on Rails books or tutorial does this.
Here's what's happening for me:
First, here's my version information:
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails$ rails --version
Rails 2.0.2
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
Here are the gems I have installed:
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails$ gem list --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
actionmailer (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
activeresource (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
activesupport (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
blow (0.3.6)
BlueCloth (1.0.0)
builder (2.1.2)
camping (1.5)
camping_generator (0.2.0)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.0.10, 1.0.9, 0.4.2)
english (0.2.0)
englishext (0.1.1)
erlectricity (0.2.0, 0.1.0)
facets (2.4.1, 2.3.0, 1.4.5)
fastthread (1.0.1)
fxirb (0.3.1)
fxri (0.3.6)
fxruby (1.6.14, 1.6.13)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
gen (0.41.0)
glue (0.41.0)
hoe (1.5.1)
json (1.1.2)
markaby (0.5)
metaid (1.0)
mongrel (1.1.4)
nitro (0.41.0)
og (0.41.0)
rails (2.0.2.9216, 2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
rdoc (2.0.0)
RedCloth (3.0.4)
rio (0.4.1)
rmovie (0.5.1)
ruby-breakpoint (0.5.1, 0.5.0)
rubyforge (0.4.5)
rubygems-update (1.1.1, 1.1.0)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1)
stick (1.3.3)
wxruby (1.9.5)
Here's the command and its output:
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails$ rails junk
create
create app/controllers
create app/helpers
create app/models
create app/views/layouts
create config/environments
create config/initializers
create db
create doc
create lib
create lib/tasks
create log
create public/images
create public/javascripts
create public/stylesheets
create script/performance
create script/process
create test/fixtures
create test/functional
create test/integration
create test/unit
create vendor
create vendor/plugins
create tmp/sessions
create tmp/sockets
create tmp/cache
create tmp/pids
create Rakefile
create README
create app/controllers/application.rb
create app/helpers/application_helper.rb
create test/test_helper.rb
create config/database.yml
create config/routes.rb
create config/initializers/inflections.rb
create config/initializers/mime_types.rb
create config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb
create config/boot.rb
create config/environment.rb
create config/environments/production.rb
create config/environments/development.rb
create config/environments/test.rb
create script/about
create script/console
create script/destroy
create script/generate
create script/performance/benchmarker
create script/performance/profiler
create script/performance/request
create script/process/reaper
create script/process/spawner
create script/process/inspector
create script/runner
create script/server
create script/plugin
create public/dispatch.rb
create public/dispatch.cgi
create public/dispatch.fcgi
create public/404.html
create public/422.html
create public/500.html
create public/index.html
create public/favicon.ico
create public/robots.txt
create public/images/rails.png
create public/javascripts/prototype.js
create public/javascripts/effects.js
create public/javascripts/dragdrop.js
create public/javascripts/controls.js
create public/javascripts/application.js
create doc/README_FOR_APP
create log/server.log
create log/production.log
create log/development.log
create log/test.log
Here's my sanity check:
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails$ cd junk
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails/junk$ ruby script/server
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment...
Exiting
/home/michael/Development/Rails/junk/config/environment.rb:44: undefined
method `time_zone=' for #<Rails::Configuration:0xb6fd60a4>
(NoMethodError)
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:47:in `run'
from /home/michael/Development/Rails/junk/config/environment.rb:13
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.4/bin/../lib/mongrel/rails.rb:147:in `rails'
... 20 levels...
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
from /home/michael/software/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
from script/server:3
And here's my proof that I'm up-to-date with my gems:
michael@isolde:~/Development/Rails/junk$ gem update
Updating installed gems
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyonrails.org/
Nothing to update
I'm really stumped as to where to go from here. There's no hint I can
find as to what the problem actually is except that, obviously,
something, somewhere is breaking a pretty much bog-standard Rails2
installation right out of the box. How do I go about debugging this?
(Looking at the file that creates the error message shows me nothing
meaningful.)
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