I discovered the problem after running a rails template on Windows. After seeing the problem I opened IRB and failed to call rails, rake and gem from there. Tried on a few other windows machines to fail the same way. The error is "Invalid Exacutable Format"
You can try the template: rails your_app -m http://tinyurl.com/cs-active-scaffold Which is from the rails tutorial http://conceptspace.wikidot.com/rails101:introduction PS. I am an Ubuntu user. I am just trying to know how to keep cross- platform On May 21, 4:47 am, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you provide more details on how gem "gets an error"? I just > tried it (including installing gems from IRB) and it worked fine. This > isn't the first heisenbug that I've seen with Ruby and Windows... (for > instance, > seehttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/... > ) > > Thanks, > > --Matt Jones > > On May 19, 11:53 am, Umur Ozkul <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Matt Jones wrote: > > > Have you tried invoking gem as `gem.bat --version` in IRB? There's a > > > special case in the config.gem installation code for win32, so I'd > > > guess that that might solve your problem... > > > > --Matt Jones > > > > On May 19, 6:32 am, Umur Ozkul <[email protected]> > > > Yes, I tried. > > > gem.bat itself is invoking but the calls it makes are resulting all in > > errors. > > Basically, in IRB, we could not call any "gem installed" commands in > > Windows. > > > e.g. gem, rails, rake > > > The mystery is as they are available in Shell, why they do result in > > error called from IRB? > > > So far 4 other people complained me of the same thing. > > > I am inclined to conclude that nobody uses IRB on Windows :) > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
