Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Installing Rails on Ubuntu

After install Rails using apt-get, I received the following message:

dean@Dean-Ubuntu:~$ rails -v
getopt: invalid option -- 'v'
Terminating...

This is definitely unusual and not the way rails works on my Mac. I found this blog post, which describes a perfect method for getting rid of the problem. Basically, it seems that it is preferable to install rails using gem, not using apt-get. Go figure...

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