rails new <app> or rails -h craps out with cannot load such file -- io/console
ruby-on-rails
Solution
So I had resolved this the same night, but somehow Stackoverflow didnt send me any notifications on the responses to the question, so I didnt know of these responses. This is what I ended up doing. It was essentially removing the ruby on rails installation and installing it from scratch. This was on a Amazon Web services server - linux flavor.
sudo yum update
$wget https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer
$ bash -s stable < rvm-installer
$ source /home/ec2-user/.rvm/scripts/rvm
$ rvm requirements
$ sudo yum erase ruby
$ rvm install ruby
$ rvm use ruby --default
$ rvm rubygems current
$ gem install rails # this takes forever
After that it worked just fine.
Problem
``` [ec2-user@ip-XX-XXX-XXX-XXX rails]$ rails -h /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- io/console (LoadError) from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/shell/basic.rb:2:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/shell/color.rb:1:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/shell.rb:17:in `shell' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/thor-0.19.1/lib/thor/base.rb:439:in `start' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/commands/application.rb:17:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/cli.rb:14:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require' from /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/bin/rails:9:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/local/bin/rails:23:in `load' from /usr/local/bin/rails:23:in `<main>' ``` I did install Ruby on Rails using $ gem install rails and it completed fine as well. I had checked the process status with $echo $? and it was 0 meaning successful. Interestingly these two commands work fine: ``` $ which rails /usr/local/bin/rails $ rails -v Rails 4.1.0 ``` This is a Amazon Web Services AMI image 64 bit. Please help me figure this out. I have the bundler installed: ``` $ gem install bundler Fetching: bundler-1.6.2.gem (100%) Successfully installed bundler-1.6.2 Parsing documentation for bundler-1.6.2 Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.6.2 Done installing documentation for bundler after 5 seconds 1 gem installed ``` I checked for duplicate installs: ``` $ find / 2>/dev/null| grep bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby2.0 $ find / 2>/dev/null| grep bin/rails /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/bin/rails /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin/templates/bin/rails.tt /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/bin/rails /usr/local/share/ruby/gems/2.0/gems/rails-4.1.0/guides/code/getting_started/bin/rails /usr/local/bin/rails /home/ec2-user/.gem/ruby/2.0/gems/rails-4.1.0/guides/code/getting_started/bin/rails ```