OK as a famous fictional lawman once said "a man is got to do what a man has got to do", or as we do when a hydro-cylindar pin gets stuck on the back hoe and we break out the big hammer and torch, I just use the wonderful "drag to trash" on all the gem folders I could find, installed sudo gem install rails -v 2.2.2 and look here:
gem list --local *** LOCAL GEMS *** actionmailer (2.2.2) actionpack (2.2.2) activerecord (2.2.2) activeresource (2.2.2) activesupport (2.2.2) rails (2.2.2) rake (0.8.7) Did a quick rails hello222 and got the whole mess. script/server and up we go. script/server => Booting WEBrick... => Rails 2.2.2 application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options [2010-12-07 17:10:32] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2010-12-07 17:10:32] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12) [universal-darwin10.0] [2010-12-07 17:10:32] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=67167 port=3000 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:18 EST] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7385 - -> / 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:18 EST] "GET /javascripts/effects.js HTTP/1.1" 200 38675 http://localhost:3000/ -> /javascripts/effects.js 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:18 EST] "GET /javascripts/prototype.js HTTP/1.1" 200 129738 http://localhost:3000/ -> /javascripts/prototype.js 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:18 EST] "GET /images/rails.png HTTP/1.1" 200 6646 http://localhost:3000/ -> /images/rails.png 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:18 EST] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 0 http://localhost:3000/ -> /favicon.ico 127.0.0.1 - - [07/Dec/2010:17:11:21 EST] "GET /rails/info/properties HTTP/1.1" 500 15464 http://localhost:3000/ -> /rails/info/properties Woohoo. Who said RoR is oblique?? localhost:3000 is responding. One remaining glitch. "About your application’s environment: MissingSourceFile in Rails/infoController#properties no such file to load -- sqlite3 RAILS_ROOT: /Users/rob/hello222 Is this a missing sqlite gem? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.