Rails not in path but ruby is?

[Nolan Johnson]

Everything seemed to work fine, but when I type rails in the command line I get "The system cannot find the path specified." I've checked my environment variables and the directory is in fact there and when I type ruby -v I receive the version number as I should. Ruby and rails are both in the same directory as the path specified in my environment variables. Can someone help me figure out how to resolve this?

Thanks!

[Fred Olive]

Hi everyone,

Same issue here:

• Extracted RailsInstaller, everything looks good
• ruby -v works, git -- version as well
• rails -v (or any Rails command) gives me a "The system cannot find the path specified."
• my user path is: "C:\RailsInstaller\Git\cmd;C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin;C:\Phantomjs\bin"
• rails.bat is present in the C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin folder
• I tried to uninstall and reinstall Rails (gem uninstall rails / gem install rails) and the whole RailsInstaller but same error message

Any help very welcomed.

Cheers,

Fred

System: Windows 10, RailsInstaller 3.2.0

[kristo...@objective.se]

Ive found that the .bat files in the RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin file includes a repo path to one "emachnic", This makes the path not able to be found on the users computer.

By changing the path on the last line to be the correct path to the ruby.exe I made it work for me. But this looks like a bug.

Fix:

Open C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\rails.bat

Change the content to something similar to:

@ECHO OFF

IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT

@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/sass" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

GOTO :EOF

:WinNT

@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

Save and it should work

[Fred Olive]

Thanks! Indeed the rails.bat file is bugged.

I guess you meant changing the path to remove "emachnic" and have something like:

@ECHO OFF

IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT

@"ruby.exe" "rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

GOTO :EOF

:WinNT

@"ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

It's what I've done and it works :-)

Thanks again.

Fred

[kristo...@objective.se]

Yes that should work. If you have the path to the "bin" folder in the PATH environment variable.

This is a recurring problem in more files than rails.bat. Haven't checked all of them but sass.bat has the same.

[Brian Clarke]

Fred's fix worked for me also.  The .bat file is indeed broken.

[caspe...@gmail.com]

List of .bat files with this bug:
bundle.bat
bundler.bat
erubis.bat
nokogiri.bat
rackup.bat
sass.bat
sass-convert.bat
scss.bat
sprockets.bat
sqlite3_ruby.bat
thor.bat
tilt.bat

[Asier Rodriguez]

This list and rails.bat 

The fix works for me too, thanks!

[Henry Harding McCall]

hello guys - I'm extremely new to this, and I've figured out how to fix all these files (using Fred's method). but can someone explain what exactly I'm doing? Or point me to a resource that can?

Why does Fred's work without specifying the whole path? I'm not even sure if I understand what I'm asking XX.

I am able to edit the .bat files and then check the versions of everything, where before the path could not be found.

[Surya Avantsa]

Fred Olive's fix worked for me too. This is how it is supposed to be. Machnic should have fixed that batch file like Fed Olive did in the first place, before releasing it to the public on a world wide website. I wonder why he/she didn't. That would improve the credibility of the railsinstaller.org website and its contents.

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Thank You,

Surya Avantsa

240-552-9063

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