From: Jason Hsu Date: 2011-08-28T12:31:29+09:00 Subject: NEWBIE issue: getting the rails command to work My OS: Swift Linux (derivative of antiX Linux, a lightweight version of MEPIS) The package I installed is rails-ruby1.8. I'm using the book _Head First Rails_ to get started with Ruby on Rails. I'm trying to get started on the very first exercise, but entering "rails tickets" gives me a "command not found" error, which tells me that Rails isn't actually installed. I downloaded the Rails code from the book's official web site. Exactly WHAT do I need to do before I can get started with the chapter 1 exercise? After installing rails-ruby1.8, I entered the command "gem install rails" as root. Everything went OK except for a message saying "file 'lib' not found". The book says I'm to enter the command "rails tickets" to run the program, but it says NOTHING about what directory I need to cd my way into first. Can anyone here shed some light on this? _Head First Rails_ seems to be a great book EXCEPT that it doesn't tell me how to get started. How can they expect me to go through all their exercises when they don't even provide the prequisites for getting them to work? -- Jason Hsu Founder and lead developer of Swift Linux (http://www.swiftlinux.org)