Rails 3.0 Beta/Prerelease Available Now and How To Install It
Today, Rails core member Jeremy Kemper dropped the words that lots of ardent Rails developers have been waiting for: "Rails 3 beta is LIVE." It's true! Rails 3.0's first approved beta/pre-release version is now live and ready for you to install.
Unfortunately, the installation process isn't as easy as Jeremy explains. RubyGems doesn't support the installation of prerequisites on pre-release gems, so you need to install them all manually. I think I have some instructions to cover that (works on 1.8.7 and 1.9.1):
gem install i18n tzinfo builder memcache-client rack rack-test rack-mount erubis mail text-format thor bundler
# remember to prefix with "sudo" if your environment needs thatAnd then, finally:
gem install rails --preWorth reading next is a retrospective and summary of the work done for Rails 3.0 so far by Yehuda Katz.
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February 5, 2010 at 3:35 am
Cheers for that.
February 5, 2010 at 3:42 am
Just had to update it a little.. added i18n. Now tested on 1.8.7 and 1.9.1.
February 5, 2010 at 3:45 am
Before anyone bitches, I beat DHH's post on the official blog by 4 minutes here, so I didn't rip it off ;-)
February 5, 2010 at 3:45 am
I had to install i18n gem too, just in case anyone else needed to know.
February 5, 2010 at 3:46 am
Amusingly, the official blog post had the same missing i18n entry that I missed and similarly fixed it *g* Ha!
February 5, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I'm running rails 2.3.5 with no problems but everytime I try to upgrade to the 3 beta and check the rails version I get this error :-
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:384:in `bin_path': can't find executable rails for rails-3.0.0.beta (Gem::Exception)
from :345:in `method_missing'
from /usr/local/bin/rails:19:in `'
Works fine if I revert back to version 2.3.5. Anyone know whats happening?
February 5, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hmm, anyone else having problems installing text-format on Leopard?
I'm getting
/Users/joc/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p248/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/spec_fetcher.rb:245: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-12-24 patchlevel 248) [i686-darwin9.8.0]
Abort trap
Any ideas?
February 5, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Ok, worked it out, had a problem with rubygems. Now to upgrade my latest project so I can start using it in all its goodness :D Keep up the great blog.
February 5, 2010 at 3:09 pm
I installed it but it is unusable :(
http://gist.github.com/295790
February 5, 2010 at 3:17 pm
If you're using a fresh 1.9.1 installation, RubyGems and Rake are included, but are not the supported version. Do the following:
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rake
Then the rest of the instructions work.
February 5, 2010 at 7:25 pm
In case anyone else gets the same problem I had above.
gem cleanup
seemed to clear everything out and i was then able to install text-format and then 3 beta
February 6, 2010 at 1:24 am
@Sam, could you please fill us in on what you did with rubygems to skirt the "can't find executable" issue?
Much appreciated.
February 6, 2010 at 3:15 am
I'm also having the same problem as @Sam and @colin.
February 6, 2010 at 3:19 am
@Sam, yes please sam as per Colin request, I'm having the same problem.
February 6, 2010 at 4:39 am
Y'all running at least Ruby 1.8.7 and the latest RubyGems?
February 6, 2010 at 5:29 am
@Leigh, @colin: I had the same bin_path problem, I deleted my ~/.gem folder, and then it was fine after. Go figure.
February 6, 2010 at 6:32 am
@Sam, how did you fix that bug? I have the same problem on my system.
February 6, 2010 at 12:35 pm
@Peter Cooper: Yes, "gem update --system" didn't do anything.
My Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) [i686-darwin9.3.0]
February 6, 2010 at 4:05 pm
I upgraded Ruby to the latest version in Macports (and for the first time since upgrading to Snow Leopard), and now rails 3.0.0.beta works:
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin10]
February 6, 2010 at 4:23 pm
@Leigh, @Colin Finally doing this:
gem install railties --pre
Fixed it for me.
February 6, 2010 at 6:54 pm
help whats up with this
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes
thanks
February 6, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Thanks Paul, I was having the same problem and "gem install railties --pre" solved it for me.
February 6, 2010 at 8:51 pm
also when I look in the rails-3.0.0.beta directory the only thing in there is .require_paths
Have I screwed up somewhere?
I have also updated ruby 1.9.1 and that is fine
the rest of the beta gems are there
using snow leopard and installing in /usr/local
February 7, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Here is what I did:
Installed bundler on system ruby (1.8.7)
Did a clean rvm install, installed ruby 1.9.1, clean rails install using these 2 lines (also had to do gem install sqlite3-ruby because bundle pack wouldn't work otherwise)
Every time I do rails server or rails script it spews a whole lot of gemspec info. Made a gist of it. http://gist.github.com/297415
The funny thing is that everything works ... it just doesn't work very nicely.
February 7, 2010 at 6:38 pm
nevermind ... this is an issue with ruby 1.9.1 & rubygems. thx for the writeup.
February 8, 2010 at 5:30 pm
for some reason, after fiddling with bundler my rails-3.0.0.beta directory was empty, and had to re-install to populate it,
For generating the doc API (rake doc:rails),
I had to symlink vendor/gems/gems to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
(yep, I couldn't figure it out with bundler)
so rake doesn't choke,
also touch railties-3.0.0.beta/MIT-LICENSE
because it's not there,
February 10, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I needed to install bundler
The latest rack-mount (0.5.0) is too new, it requires 0.4.x so I specified 0.4.0. ( sudo gem install rack-mount --version=0.4.0 )
I didn't need to install railties though to make the install work.
The error I got on my first attempt was:
ERROR: Error installing rails:
actionpack requires rack-mount (~> 0.4.0, runtime)
I'd never seen the '~>' syntax before, despite using ruby for over 3 years -- I found it meant that exact branch (0.4.x), and not a higher one (which I had just installed [0.5.0]).
I found that at:
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3918
Cheers!
-- Craig
February 10, 2010 at 11:01 pm
andres I am having the same problem but when I reinstalled I still have a empty directory but the strange thing is that I am doing a tutorial with rails 3 and it works???????
on mac osx snow leopard
any idea how to install properly??
gracias
February 11, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Paul Siegmann, comment #20 fixed the same problem SAM didn't really elude to... leave a blog next time dude.
I also, updated my gems as per Peter's suggestion, then when that didn't work i deleted .gems as Chris Moos said in #16, but that didn't work, so i tried SAM's suggestion.
Enjoy.
February 19, 2010 at 12:39 pm
-> the missing binary file issue
the manual installation of railties beta fixed it for me too.
(ubuntu 9.04)
command:
sudo gem install railties --pre
February 28, 2010 at 4:52 am
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