Hello All,
I have just created a new install of Ubuntu 8.10, and have proceeded to install all of the necessary packages for Ruby on Rails. I installed ruby, gems, and rails, but when i run rails -v, i get the following error:

root@li41-22:~# rails -v
-bash: rails: command not found

any guidance would be greatly appreciated

Jason

It's probably just not in your path? The deb package for rails installs it to /usr/bin/rails, check to see if that file exists. I'm not sure where it goes if you install it from gem, but i think that is the recommended method.

How did you install Rails? Via Rubygems or Aptitude?

If you installed via RubyGems, it's probably in a directory like

/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin

you have to create the symlinks

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/bin/ri
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/bin/rdoc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/bin/irb


edit: ops i didin't see this post was this old. Maybe this will be usefull for future generation