[Update] Ruby on Rails install

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:03 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> I'm running Dapper 6.06LTS and am in the process of installing ruby and
> rails.
> 
> I've been following the Dapper installation setup at
> http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2006/06/10/install-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-dapper-drake
> 
> 2 questions...
> 
> During this process (sudo ruby setup.rb)
> I notice it says that it is removing 
> Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri...
> and installing updated versions.
> Should I pin those apps in Synaptic to avoid conflicts?
> 
> After that installation is complete, the next step says this:
> sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
> 
> And, this is what I get - 
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
>     Could not find rails (> 0) in any repository
Odd.  The second time I tried this command, it worked.  Now, the only
_glitch_ seems to be during install of actionpack through gem.  I get - 

gymsmoke at croatus:~/rubygems-0.9.2$ sudo gem install actionpack
Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.2
Installing ri documentation for actionpack-1.13.2...

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1061:30: ':' not followed by identified
or operator

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1065:39: ':' not followed by identified
or operator
Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.13.2...

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1061:30: ':' not followed by identified
or operator

lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1065:39: ':' not followed by identified
or operator