From: Kyle Schmitt Date: 2007-11-21T07:56:02+09:00 Subject: Installing activerecord sans gems. Hopefully this won't sound too odd, but I want to install activerecord & its dependencies on a box without rubygems. I've grabbed and installed activesupport, sqlite3 and activerecord, and they seem to be installed OK, but even the simplest active record app dies when it hits creating a schema. Any thoughts as to what I'm missing? Thanks, Kyle [kschmitt@wrk]$ ./main.rb -- create_table(:users) /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require': can't convert Symbol into String (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:7:in `require_library_or_gem' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in `silence_warnings' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:5:in `require_library_or_gem' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite_adapter.rb:14:in `sqlite3_connection' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:262:in `send' ... 9 levels... from ./main.rb:13 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/schema.rb:43:in `instance_eval' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/active_record/schema.rb:43:in `define' from ./main.rb:12