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Ubuntu: "Could not find rails locally or in a repository"

Answer 1

+2 A:

I would try to update gems first. The latest version is 1.3.3. You can do this on Ubuntu by either:

sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo update_rubygems

or

sudo gem install rubygems-update
cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-*
sudo ruby setup.rb

Jason Punyon 2009-05-12 11:58:41

On running the first command, I get:Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ERROR: could not find rubygems-update locally or in a repository

Nathan Long 2009-05-12 12:09:34

I think you're definitely having a network problem then. I got very similar behavior when I was setting up an ubuntu box at work a couple of weeks ago...

Jason Punyon 2009-05-12 12:14:56

Is there a port blocked or something? How can I troubleshoot it?

Nathan Long 2009-05-12 12:16:02

Updating gems worked for me.

andyuk 2010-05-22 12:47:22

Answer 2

+1 A:

gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org

phillc 2009-05-19 17:06:00

This is the only one that worked for me.

Jamie 2010-06-08 14:48:27

Answer 3

+3 A:

basically, try again! It could be a serious error, but in earlier versions ( I encountered this about 1 year ago or so ) it happend on the first try and when trying again the gem would eventually be found. I think it had something to do with the servers performance or such.

Using a recent version of rubygems is probably a good idea, and if it really won't work you can always get the .gem file from sourceforge directly and install from it.

For example with the file rails-2.3.2.gem:

gem install rails-2.3.2 –local

Paul 2009-05-20 21:30:49

Just wanted to second this point about it being inconsistent. I believe "rails" is a special sort of compound gem. For some reason installing the separate parts, such as activerecord, activesupport, and so forth, never fails for me, but in the past (not so much now with the latest RubyGems 1.3.1 and up) "rails" was very temperamental and it'd usually take a few tries.

Peter Cooper 2009-05-22 14:56:05

The instructions for installing locally seem to get me further, but then it tells me that my version of rake isn't new enough, and trying to update it gets me the same "could not find" message.

Nathan Long 2009-05-23 21:55:19

I suppose I could go find all this stuff manually, but I'm trying to use package management for everything, and so far it's not working.

Nathan Long 2009-05-23 21:55:55

Answer 4

A:

on debian: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/assembladev/Install_application_stack

4F2E4A2E 2010-10-12 12:41:30

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