Question

Im not going to start by saying i’m a newbie etc. Jokes, been learning Rails for nearly month using Lynda.com. I use Mac, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.

I am trying to intall Paperclip Gem but i can’t seem to figure out what i’m doing wrong.

I followed the instructions on https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/wiki/Installation

I added this line to my config/environment.rb

config.gem 'paperclip', :source => 'http://rubygems.org'

and i then tried to run

rake gems:install

I get an error message:

(in /Users/fred/Ruby/food)
rake aborted!
undefined local variable or method `config' for main:Object
/Users/fred/Ruby/food/Rakefile:4:in `require'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I then tried the following as an alternative when the above failed

script/plugin install git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip

I get the following error

-bash: script/plugin: No such file or directory

My question is how do install this gem? I have read a lot of other posts that say i should include gem 'paperclip', "~> 2.3" is this the same as what i did above?

Answer 1

Best to use bundler. Steps are

1. Install bundler: gem install bundler
2. Add to Gemfile: config.gem 'paperclip'
3. cd to where the Gemfile is and run: bundle install. This will install all the gems mentioned in the Gemfile

Ps. I assume that you are not using rvm. Also, you may need to prefix sudo to the command in step 1 above in case the command does not work for you due to a permission problem.