I got everything to work. When I first tried: rails new myApp
it created the app and then I ran: rails server that worked fine too with localhost:3000 but then I tried making another app, which was created but gave me a message stating that server is already running and then it exited. Therefore, my locahost wasn't working anymrore. Then I did some fooling around and I think I just made it worse!! here is where I am at now: ~$ rails new blog /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead. /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/applications/app/app_generator.rb:7: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config. exists exists app/controllers exists app/helpers exists app/models exists app/views/layouts exists config/environments exists config/initializers exists config/locales exists db exists doc exists lib exists lib/tasks exists log exists public/images exists public/javascripts exists public/stylesheets exists script/performance exists test/fixtures exists test/functional exists test/integration exists test/performance exists test/unit exists vendor exists vendor/plugins exists tmp/sessions exists tmp/sockets exists tmp/cache exists tmp/pids identical Rakefile identical README identical app/controllers/application_controller.rb identical app/helpers/application_helper.rb identical config/database.yml identical config/routes.rb identical config/locales/en.yml identical db/seeds.rb identical config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb identical config/initializers/inflections.rb identical config/initializers/mime_types.rb identical config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb overwrite config/initializers/session_store.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] WHAT DO I DO!???? ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [i686-linux] Rails 2.3.14 rvm 1.26.10 (latest) ~$ gem -v 1.8.23 ~$ which ruby /usr/bin/ruby ~$ which gem /usr/bin/gem Please advise. THANKS! T -- 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/f0a3fe2017c4e47f5b4afe943c22d783%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.