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Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points
Posted by Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points

Cannt create new rails application

I am having trouble creating the treebook rails app. I am trying to put it in a folder inside of my Documents: (Documents/Development/Ruby).

Charuthas-MacBook-Pro:Ruby charuthabandara$ rvm use 2.1.5
Using /Users/charuthabandara/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5
Charuthas-MacBook-Pro:Ruby charuthabandara$ rails new treebook
/Users/charuthabandara/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:298:in `to_specs': Could not find 'railties' (>= 0) among 14 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)
    from /Users/charuthabandara/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:309:in `to_spec'
    from /Users/charuthabandara/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:53:in `gem'
    from /Users/charuthabandara/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/bin/rails:22:in `<main>'
Charuthas-MacBook-Pro:Ruby charuthabandara$

1 Answer

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

Hmmm it seems you lack a gem that is needed try to run

gem install railties

If you still have troubles after that I suggest you re-install rails, if that doesn't work let us know.

(It's pretty late on my side so i'll take some hours to reply since I am heading to sleep but others might help before I do if this does not work)

Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points
Charutha Bandara
Charutha Bandara
5,958 Points

Thanks Gloria,

I reinstalled rails and everything worked.

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

Awesome!