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Ruby

Posted by John Hill
John Hill
12,781 Points

Error: You need to run the bin/rails execution

I keep getting a message Bummer! you need to run the bin/rails execution.

I type $ bin/rails generate or whatever sub command is required, but I keep getting that error... and it prevents me from continuing.

3 Answers

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points
john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

I'm just curious. Are you doing the new rails course? Cause I was having a lot of problems getting things up and running with Rails, and then I found there's a newer Rails course that should be less buggy. I haven't tried it yet cause I'm doing Python right now. This is the course I was referred to.

Ilya Dolgirev
Ilya Dolgirev
35,375 Points
Ilya Dolgirev
Ilya Dolgirev
35,375 Points

Try to prepend your rails command with bundle exec.

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

Just to be sure, you're not actually typing the $, right? That's the prompt for you to type something on Unix/Linux systems, and you shouldn't type it again yourself.