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 gen

Answer 1

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.