Ruby on Rails

I thought I would just chime in to say that I was (seemingly) having the same problem as described by Prasanna, and the "sledgehammer" approach described by Colin has solved it for me.

The first time I had tried installing rails, I was following the guide on https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/14.04 which prescribes calling,

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

(without --rails), and calling "gem install rails" later. I'm not entirely sure why that borks things. My guess is that the script when called with --rails installs whatever magic package I was missing.

Cheers,
Erik

On Monday, 21 September 2015 04:20:53 UTC-4, Colin Law wrote:

However, all else having failed I think the only option is to use the
sledgehammer.  I suggest you entirely remove rvm by

rm -rf ~/.rvm* ~/.gem/ ~/.bundle
Some of those may not exist so don't worry if it does not find them to delete.

Tell gem that we don't need to install the docs
echo 'gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri' > ~/.gemrc

Remove the Ubuntu version of gem if you have somehow installed it
sudo apt-get purge gem

Now install ruby and rails using rvm  - Note never use sudo for
installing rails related stuff except for installing system libraries
and so on with apt-get.  Otherwise you end up with things owned by
root and in the wrong folders.

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails