Installed Rails but the rails command says it's not installed.

Question

Hey there,

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Ruby 1.9.1.

I installed Rails using sudo gem install rails, which installed all the libraries for me.

When I type rails in the terminal it says.

The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install rails rails: command not found

I can find rake, which is under rake1.9.1, but Rails is nowhere to be found, can someone point me in the right direction?

Edit: path to ruby isn't the problem, the problem is where is rails? how do I execute it? rails just doesn't work, where does the exectuable lives?

Answer 1

Did you update your PATH variable to include the bin directory of the rails install?

Answer 2

You may want to include the path of Ruby/Jruby folder in your bashrc file. That would ensure that you are able to run it from anywhere. Don't forget to restart terminal or "source .bashrc" to reload variables in terminals.

Answer 3

As others say, this may very well be a PATH variable issue on your bashrc/bash_profile file.

You can learn how to change PATH..

You can get the current PATH variable by typing echo $PATH

Answer 4

Should I install Rails using apt-get? Installed using gem and it didn't create the executable in the bin folder.

But it did for rake =/

Answer 5

gem should have placed the rails executable script in the same location as ruby's. I'd look in there and make sure the permissions are set correctly and it is executable.

Answer 6

Just had the same issue just put the following in your .bashrc

PATH="${PATH}:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/