Getting Rails 3 Beta Setup
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If you use Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably heard by now about the release of the Rails 3.0 beta yesterday. There’s been a lot leading up to this release , so naturally most of the rails world is eager to jump in and give it a try. Saturday morning is a great time to get started, so I decided to give it a try. First off, I wanted to make sure I had a more up to date version of Ruby. Rails 3.0 beta and up will require Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. If you’re running Snow Leopard you probably already have this, but can always do a ruby- v to check your current Ruby version. The easiest way I’ve found to run multiple versions of ruby is using the rvm gem. It handles everything needed for running multiple versions of Ruby, including Rubygems. Just install the gem and go from there:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | link:~ adam$ gem install rvm link:~ adam$ rvm-install link:~ adam$ mate ~/.bash_profile link:~ adam$ ruby- v link:~ adam$ rvm install 1.9.1 link:~ adam$ rvm use 1.9.1 link:~ adam$ gem install tzinfo builder memcache-client link:~ adam$ gem install rack rack-test rack-mount link:~ adam$ gem install erubis mail text-format link:~ adam$ gem install thor bundler i18n link:~ adam$ gem install rails |
At this point, I tried to create a new rails project using the usual rails [projectname] , but I ended up getting the following error:
link:research adam$ rails beta /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:384:in `bin_path’: can’t find executable rails for rails-3.0.0.beta (Gem::Exception) from /usr/bin/rails:19
A lucky comment in another blog showed a fix for this:
1 | link:~ adam$ gem install railties —pre
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After that I was able to create a project the usual way, and start messing around the latest version of Rails. Looking forward to upgrading some existing sites!
1 2 3 | link:research adam$ rails testsite link:research adam$ cd testsite link:testsite adam$ rails server |
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