Trouble with Ruby on Rails with Rake

Question

Hello Everybody,

I'm very new to Rails, so please forgive my lack of understanding. I've installed the latest versions of RubyGems, Ruby, Rails, Rake, and MySQL etc via RubyGems, but I have this problem when starting to make a basic Rails app:

Icarus:temporary atg$ rails new people
    ... (output omitted) ...
Icarus:temporary atg$ cd people
Icarus:people atg$ rake db:create
(in /Users/atg/temporary/people)
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Bundler
/Users/atg/temporary/people/Rakefile:4
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Icarus:people atg$ rake db:create --trace
(in /Users/atg/temporary/people)
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Bundler
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2503:in `const_missing'
/Users/atg/temporary/people/config/boot.rb:9
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
/Users/atg/temporary/people/config/application.rb:1
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
/Users/atg/temporary/people/Rakefile:4
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:in `load'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:in `raw_load_rakefile'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2017:in `load_rakefile'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2016:in `load_rakefile'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2000:in `run'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run'
/Users/atg/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31
/usr/bin/rake:19:in `load'
/usr/bin/rake:19

I have no idea what I did wrong, and I'm so new to this that I don't know that I could debug it if I spent my whole life working on it -- any ideas / guidance?

All help is appreciated and thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Bundler is the new dependencies management system for Ruby apps, and is used in new Rails projects.

# ask rubygems to install bundler
$ gem install bundler

# ask bundler to install your app's dependencies
$ bundle install

# run your app & tasks using bundler
$ bundle exec rake db:create

Answer 2

I would recommend starting with Rails 2.3.8 if this is your first experience. There are many tutorials and wider support; 3.0 is fairly fresh with several major changes. You'll be able to upgrade from 2.3.8 to 3.0.0 eventually anyway.