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Mago

25 Jul, 2011 11:38 PM

I installed the Shotgun (0.9) gem, but when I try to run my file using Shotgun, it gives me an error message.

$ shotgun file.rb No command 'shotgun' found, did you mean:
Blah Blah Blah...

shotgun: command not found

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 29 Jul, 2011 03:34 PM

   

   I would report this to shotgun's issue tracker as well: https://github.com/rtomayko/shotgun

   This could be a setup error though. How did you install RubyGems? With RVM?

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2. 3 Posted by MG on 29 Jul, 2011 03:52 PM

   

   Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. That's what I thought at first, so I uninstalled and re-installed through the terminal: sudo apt-get install gem (on ubuntu)

   When I run gem list:
   I see all of my libraries, but other than Sinatra, nothing else works.

   I posted this on LinkedIn, and someone advised the following:

   "It seems you have to add the shotgun bin to the executable search path. Something like: export PATH=/path/to/your/gems/bin:$PATH Try it in the command line and then do the same in ~/bashrc"

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3. Support Staff 4 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 29 Jul, 2011 03:56 PM

   

   The PATH advice seems sound, but I would really recommend using RVM.

   http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

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4. Support Staff 5 Posted by Luis Lavena on 29 Jul, 2011 03:58 PM

   

   Please do:

   gem list -d shotgun

   And will display where shotgun was installed.

   Now, check if the closes directory to that installation location is in the PATH

   E.g.: if shotgun was installed in /Users/luis/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352 then /Users/luis/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin should be in $PATH

   Check with: echo $PATH

   And if is not, it should be added.

   Mixing Ruby installation via apt-get with other installation of RubyGems (using gem update --system is a complicated scenario)

   On Debian/Ubuntu, gem update --system is disabled and should not be used.

   Manual installed RubyGems on Debian/Ubuntu do not install gems in places in the PATH.

   Let us know if that helps or not.

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5. 6 Posted by Mago / MG on 29 Jul, 2011 04:07 PM

   

   I'll give it a try over the weekend. If it wasn't obvious enough already, I am a Ruby / Ruby Gem / RoR Noobster! But I am excited about learning it...Thanks Guys!

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6. 7 Posted by MG on 30 Jul, 2011 10:43 PM

   

   Hey Guys! So I am trying to install RVM, do I just type the following like I see it?

   bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

   Thanks for your help!

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7. Support Staff 8 Posted by Luis Lavena on 04 Aug, 2011 05:30 PM

   

   If you need help with RVM, please use IRC to reach other RVM users that might assist you better than us:

   https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/support/irc/

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8. Luis Lavena closed this discussion on 04 Aug, 2011 05:30 PM.

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