Hi, Thanks for your help. I solved the problem by completely removing all traces of rails, ruby, rake and gems from the system and then starting over, following the instructions given here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/linux to the letter. It appears there are a number of ways to install rails on Ubuntu, several of them "recommended" on various websites, but this is the only way that worked for me... Thanks again for your help, Greg On Jul 7, 10:43 am, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Both commands (rake and rails) create a full new application directory > structure. So > > ~/$rails blog -d mysql > > Creates two directories populated with new app sructure, one called > "blog" and one called "mysql" > > ~/blog$rake db:create > > Creates a new app structure called "db:create". > > I've also tried > > ~/$rails blog -dmysql > > This gives invalid option errors. > > Versions: > rake 0.8.1 > ruby 1.8.7 > rails 2.1.0 > > These were all installed using the Ubuntu package manager, but > previously I have installed using gems, but still had the same > problem. > > Ubuntu is running inside a virtual machine (VirtualBox), but I can't > see why that should be a problem (at least not of this nature)...? > > Thanks, > Greg > > On Jul 7, 1:21 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- > > s.net> wrote: > > Greg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been struggling to get Rails working properly on my Ubuntu box > > > for a couple of weeks now - driving me mad... > > > > The current problem is that the "rails" and "rake" commands seem to be > > > wrongly intrepreting the command-line. For example, if I type: > > > > ~/$rails blog -d mysql > > > > What I get is a directory called "blog" with a bunch of stuff in it > > > AND a directory called "mysql" with the same bunch of stuff! > > > Try -dmysql without the space and see what happens. > > > > also, if after setting up database.yml correctly, then do > > > > ~/blog$rake db:create > > > > what I get is yet another directory full of rubbish created also > > > called "db:create"! Gaaaghhh! > > > And what is in that directory? That might help diagnose the problem. > > > Also, what versions of Ruby, Gem, and Rake do you have installed? > > > Best, > > -- > > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > > [email protected] > > -- > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
