Why does my rails command always create a new application?

Question

Forgive me as I'm new to both *nix and ruby on rails. My rails command always creates a new application and I can't figure out why. Running "rails new myApp" will just generate a new rails application named "new" in the current directory. Likewise "rails server" just creates a new application in a folder named "server". Any ideas? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and rails 3.0.9.

Answer 1

For creating project in current directory, you can run:

rails new .

Answer 2

You have installed rails through apt-get so you have rails 2. If you want rails 3, use

sudo apt-get remove --purge rails # very important so that the new rails is called
sudo apt-get install rubygems
sudo gem install rails

Don't forget to relaunch your terminal and you're done.

Answer 3

When you create your application with rails new myApp, there should be a myApp/script directory and in there will be a script named rails, this is the rails that understands server and console. So, do this:

$ rails new MyApp
$ cd MyApp
$ script/rails server

To create and start up your application. The naming is a little confusing.