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Mark Smith

2005-Mar-23 14:43 UTC

Rails install problem (noob) - no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) - with solution

Hi 

I had a (user) problem installing Rails with the current one-click Windows 
install of Ruby and I thought I''d document the solution here. Sorry in
advance
if I''ve duplicated information but a quick look through the mailing
list
archives didn''t offer a solution.

The instructions at http://download.rubyonrails.com/ include 3 steps:

Get hold of RubyGems 0.8.8 (or higher) 
gem install rails (accept all the dependencies) 
rails /complete/path/to/new/railsapp 

My problem was failing to read the install instructions properly. :-) Noobs 
like me might make the assumption that the current build of Ruby Windows 
Installer would install the latest version of RubyGems, making the first step 
redundant. It does not (version 0.8.3 is the default) and this leads to the 
error stack shown at the bottom of this message.

You can see that the installed version of RubyGems is 0.8.3 by doing 

gem environment

To get the latest gems installed you need to do the following

gem install rubygems

update_rubygems

The first command downloads the latest 0.8.8 release of RubyGems, while the 
second actually installs it.

You can check if it worked by doing gem environment again.

After that, step two works like a champ.

Now for those OnLAMP tutorials.. :-)

Regards
Mark Smith
Information Patterns

Error message included below for Googlers --------------------


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem install rails

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" 
"c:\ruby\bin\gem"
 install rails
Attempting local installation of ''rails''
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''rails''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency rake? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn]  y
Install required dependency actionwebservice? [Yn]  y
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'':
No
 such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in 
`r
equire''
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require''
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer
/vendor/tmail/quoting.rb:1
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in 
`r
equire__''
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in 
`r
equire''
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo
rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require''
        from 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer
/vendor/tmail/mail.rb:18
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in 
`r
equire__''
         ... 20 levels...
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in 
`proce
ss_args''
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in
`run''
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in
`run''
        from c:/ruby/bin/gem:11

bryce benton

2005-Mar-23 15:27 UTC

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Re: Rails install problem (noob) - no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) - with solution

Thank you very much for documenting this. I had the same problem, and
your solution was exactly what I needed.

--bryce


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:43:01 GMT, Mark Smith
<mark.smith-Y3wenZVVjgpmvIw80TeVig@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hi
> 
> I had a (user) problem installing Rails with the current one-click Windows
> install of Ruby and I thought I''d document the solution here.
Sorry in advance
> if I''ve duplicated information but a quick look through the
mailing list
> archives didn''t offer a solution.
> 
> The instructions at http://download.rubyonrails.com/ include 3 steps:
> 
> Get hold of RubyGems 0.8.8 (or higher)
> gem install rails (accept all the dependencies)
> rails /complete/path/to/new/railsapp
> 
> My problem was failing to read the install instructions properly. :-) Noobs
> like me might make the assumption that the current build of Ruby Windows
> Installer would install the latest version of RubyGems, making the first
step
> redundant. It does not (version 0.8.3 is the default) and this leads to the
> error stack shown at the bottom of this message.
> 
> You can see that the installed version of RubyGems is 0.8.3 by doing
> 
> gem environment
> 
> To get the latest gems installed you need to do the following
> 
> gem install rubygems
> 
> update_rubygems
> 
> The first command downloads the latest 0.8.8 release of RubyGems, while the
> second actually installs it.
> 
> You can check if it worked by doing gem environment again.
> 
> After that, step two works like a champ.
> 
> Now for those OnLAMP tutorials.. :-)
> 
> Regards
> Mark Smith
> Information Patterns
> 
> Error message included below for Googlers --------------------
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem install rails
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe"
> "c:\ruby\bin\gem"
>  install rails
> Attempting local installation of ''rails''
> Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of ''rails''
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org 
> Install required dependency rake? [Yn]  y
> Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn]  y
> Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn]  y
> Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]  y
> Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn]  y
> Install required dependency actionwebservice? [Yn]  y
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__'':
> No
>  such file to load -- iconv (LoadError)
>         from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `r
> equire''
>         from
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo
> rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require''
>         from
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer
> /vendor/tmail/quoting.rb:1
>         from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `r
> equire__''
>         from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `r
> equire''
>         from
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.2/lib/active_suppo
> rt/dependencies.rb:197:in `require''
>         from
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-0.8.0/lib/action_mailer
> /vendor/tmail/mail.rb:18
>         from
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
> `r
> equire__''
>          ... 20 levels...
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in
> `proce
> ss_args''
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in
`run''
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in
`run''
>         from c:/ruby/bin/gem:11
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org 
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails 
>

Jim Weirich

2005-Mar-23 15:54 UTC

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Re: Rails install problem (noob) - no such file to load --iconv (LoadError) - with solution

Mark Smith said:> Hi
>
> I had a (user) problem installing Rails with the current one-click Windows
> install of Ruby and I thought I''d document the solution here.
Sorry in
> advance
> if I''ve duplicated information but a quick look through the
mailing list
> archives didn''t offer a solution.
>
> The instructions at http://download.rubyonrails.com/ include 3 steps:
>
> Get hold of RubyGems 0.8.8 (or higher)
> gem install rails (accept all the dependencies)
> rails /complete/path/to/new/railsapp
>
> My problem was failing to read the install instructions properly. :-)
> Noobs
> like me might make the assumption that the current build of Ruby Windows
> Installer would install the latest version of RubyGems, making the first
> step
> redundant. It does not (version 0.8.3 is the default) and this leads to
> the
> error stack shown at the bottom of this message.
Just a note:  Although RubyGems 0.8.8 tends to help the situation, I''ve
heard reports that some systems still exhibit the problem with version
0.8.8.  RubyGems 0.8.9 will directly address this problem and will be
available RSN (I''m aiming to make the next release of the one-click
installer).

We are testing the new version now.  If you /still/ have the iconv problem
after you upgrade as instructed here, please contact me.  I would like you
to try the CVS version of RubyGems.

-- 
-- Jim Weirich     jim-Fxty1mrVU9GlFc2d6oM/ew@public.gmane.org   
http://onestepback.org
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Re: Rails install problem (noob) - no such file to load -- iconv (LoadError) - with solution

Re: Rails install problem (noob) - no such file to load --iconv (LoadError) - with solution