I had the same problem on my environment(apache2/fast-cgi, localhost and DreamHost) before. I don't know the reason of this(why rails need to know HOME?), but I could stop the error. Try to add the following line to the head of config/environment.rb:
ENV['HOME'] = '/home/username' # change username to yours ---- Keita Yamaguchi 2007/4/25, Andrea Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all.. i've just tried to install radiant on site5 but I got this > error: > > ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/lookup.rb: > 33:in `expand_path': couldn't find HOME environment -- expanding > `~' (ArgumentError) > from ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/ > lookup.rb:33:in `user_home' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/ > lookup.rb:105:in `use_component_sources!' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/ > lookup.rb:53:in `included' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/ > rails_generator.rb:38 > from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in > `require' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../ > activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../ > activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in > `new_constants_in' > from ../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../ > activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' > ... 12 levels... > from ../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb: > 43:in `run' > from ../config/../lib/radiant/initializer.rb:32:in `run' > from ./../config/environment.rb:11 > from dispatch.fcgi:21 > > Does anybody know what I can do? > Thank you very much! > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
