getopt: invalid option — ‘v’

Posted on January 15, 2009, under Ubuntu.

0

Recently, I tried to install rails and it seems it all got installed successfully and in the terminal when i type

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

$ rails -v
getopt: invalid option -- 'v'
Terminating...
 
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge rails
 
$ sudo gem install rails
Successfully installed rails-2.2.2
1 gem installed
$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails /usr/bin/rails
$ rails -v
Rails 2.2.2