Hi Rick, thanks! I tried carrying out those instructions: heres what i got - mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/home$ which rails /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails
mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/home$ which /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails I suppose im having trouble with step 2 of your directions. However its nice to have a kind of explanation of whats going on. Again, excuse my illiteracy on this, but it look like maybe i do have rails installed in my home directory? **just discovered by accident I can do this: mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/home$ which /home/mwr/.rvm.gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/home$ wc -l 'which rails' wc: which rails: No such file or directory mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/home$ cd .. mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/$ which rails /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/$ which /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/$ rails new path/here create /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:247:in `mkdir': Permission denied - /path (Errno::EACCES) from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:247:in `fu_mkdir' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:221:in `block (2 levels) in mkdir_p' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:219:in `reverse_each' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:219:in `block in mkdir_p' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:205:in `each' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:205:in `mkdir_p' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:51:in `block in invoke!' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:117:in `call' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:117:in `invoke_with_conflict_check' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:50:in `invoke!' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions.rb:95:in `action' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:15:in `empty_directory' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/generators/app_base.rb:103:in `create_root' from (eval):1:in `create_root' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:120:in `invoke_command' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `block in invoke_all' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `each' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `map' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_all' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/group.rb:233:in `dispatch' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/thor-0.18.1/lib/thor/base.rb:439:in `start' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/commands/application.rb:38:in `<top (required)>' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/railties-3.2.13/lib/rails/cli.rb:15:in `<top (required)>' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /home/mwr/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/railties-3.2.13/bin/rails:7:in `<top (required)>' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails:19:in `load' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/rails:19:in `<main>' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval' from /home/mwr/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>' mwr@mwr-Ubuntu:/$ ls bin dev initrd.img lib64 mnt root selinux tmp vmlinuz boot etc initrd.img.old lost+found opt run srv usr vmlinuz.old cdrom home lib media proc sbin sys var -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/75aa0fbfb736ab47d1796611463274a4%40ruby-forum.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.