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The current Rails Gem (version 1.2.5) gives an error when creating a Controller in a JRuby-on-Rails application on Windows. It gives the following error during controller creation as shown below:

C:/testbed/ruby/jruby-1.0.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:420:in `realpath_rec': No such file or directory -C:/testbed/ruby/jruby-1.0.1/samples/rails/hello/C: (Errno::ENOENT)
    from C:/testbed/ruby/jruby-1.0.1/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:453:in `realpath'
    from C:/testbed/ruby/jruby-1.0.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.4/lib/initializer.rb:543:in `set_root_path!'
    from C:/testbed/ruby/jruby-1.0.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.4/lib/initializer.rb:509:in `initialize'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:35:in `new'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:35:in `run'
    from ./script/../config/boot.rb:35
    from :1:in `require'
    from :1

and Rails 1.2.4 gives exactly the same error. This is Ticket #9893. This actually happens because of JRUBY-1401.

The workaround is to use Rails 1.2.3. If you have already installed the latest Rails plugin, then you can uninstall it using the command:

C:\testbed\ruby\jruby-1.0.1\bin>gem uninstall rails
Successfully uninstalled rails version 1.2.5
Remove executables and scripts for
'rails' in addition to the gem? [Yn] y
Removing rails

And then install Rails 1.2.3 as:

gem install rails --include-dependencies --version 1.2.3 --no-ri --no-rdoc
Successfully installed rails-1.2.3
Successfully installed activesupport-1.4.2
Successfully installed activerecord-1.15.3
Successfully installed actionpack-1.13.3
Successfully installed actionmailer-1.3.3
Successfully installed actionwebservice-1.2.3

Now create a new application as shown below:

jruby -S rails hello

And then create a controller as:

jruby script\generate controller say hello
exists app/controllers/
exists app/helpers/
create app/views/say
exists test/functional/
create app/controllers/say_controller.rb
create test/functional/say_controller_test.rb
create app/helpers/say_helper.rb
create app/views/say/hello.rhtml

Hope you find it useful and this bug is fixed in the next version of Rails.

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