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Ruby on Rails and Ubuntu: typing just "script/generate ..." instead of "ruby script/generate"

Answer 1

+6 A:

chmod 755 script/generate

petraszd 2010-06-21 19:23:00

Thank you petra!

sjsc 2010-06-21 19:27:30

To clarify why this works: Permission is denied when you try to execute script/generate because the user does not have the execute permission set on the file. Running `chmod 755 script/generate` enables the user's execute permission on the file. In the case of `ruby script/generate ...` there needs to be only read permission, as the file is being parsed, instead of executed.

Jamie Wong 2010-06-21 19:30:41

any idea why the problem happens in the first place? I can only guess that sjsc installed rails from a local version of the gem, or from a USB stick

stephenmurdoch 2010-06-21 19:36:19

Answer 2

+2 A:

wow, that's strange,

congrats on switching to linux.

how did you install Ruby? Did you do it from the synaptic package manager? Did you run sudo aptitude install ruby or something like that?

whatever you have done, you might be best installing RubyVersionManager (RVM) - it's really easy - there's a railscast on how it works here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/200-rails-3-beta-and-rvm

I've never had or heard of the problem you've got there

stephenmurdoch 2010-06-21 19:23:31

Thanks for the tip stephen! I might've missed some steps. Thank you so much.

sjsc 2010-06-21 19:26:17

no problem, it looks like the other answers explain why it's happening, i.e. a lack of permissions on the script command. Hopefully you will not have too much trouble installing RVM, if you do decide to go that way - I find that it makes me way more productive and so do a lot of other *nix ruby developers. I think there is something similar on windows called Pik. But you won't need that now that you are on Ubuntu. Good luck

stephenmurdoch 2010-06-21 19:31:10

Answer 3

+4 A:

Type

ls -la

in the script folder to see the permissions of the generated script.

It probably doesn't have the execute permission (x).

I recommend reinstalling rails.

robertokl 2010-06-21 19:24:31

thank you robertokl!

sjsc 2010-06-21 19:25:37

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