Bug: Error running rails db:setup on a fresh install

[Joel Brewer]

Running rails db:setup returns an error.

🐞 Problem

I performed a fresh clone, bundle install, and subsequent rails db:setup and received the following error:

rails aborted!
FrozenError: can't modify frozen String: "railties_load_path="
/Users/joelbrewer/Repos/railsgoat/config/application.rb:4:in require' /Users/joelbrewer/Repos/railsgoat/config/application.rb:4:in <top (required)>'
/Users/joelbrewer/Repos/railsgoat/Rakefile:5:in require_relative' /Users/joelbrewer/Repos/railsgoat/Rakefile:5:in <top (required)>'
script/rails:7:in require' script/rails:7:in

'

Steps to reproduce:

• git clone
• bundle install
• rails db:setup

💡 Possible solutions

I have a feeling this could be a ruby/rails version issue (I noticed the Ruby version was recently upgraded).

[Al Snow]

What version of ruby are you using?

[Joel Brewer]

Using rbenv -- this was the only 2.7.0 version available.

[Al Snow]

I use rvm with .rvmrc: rvm use 2.7.0-preview1@ruby2.7-rails6.0 --create

[Joel Brewer]

Got it - I'll try using rvm 👍

[Tre Island]

Any update on. This has been a nightmare to install on a fresh ubuntu instance as well as a docker container.

[Ken Johnson]

@treprime are you using RVM as noted above?

[Tre Island]

@cktricky I managed to get it working on my instance of Ubuntu. Steps below

• Install ruby and ruby-build

   sudo apt-get install ruby \
   ruby-build -y
  

• Install mysql

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server \
    mysql-client \
    libmysqlclient-dev
  

• Install rvm (ruby version manager)

    curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash
  

• source the directory

    source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
  

• Install the bundler

    gem install bundler
  

• Clone railsgoat

    git clone https://github.com/OWASP/railsgoat.git
    cd railsgoat
  

• Install ruby 2.7 preview

    rvm install "ruby-2.7.0-preview1"
  

• Install the bundles

    bundle install
  

• Setup the database

    bundle exec rake db:setup
  

• Start the server

    bundle exec rails server
  

• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000

[Ken Johnson]

Thank you @tre-island. I think I need to try and build this on a fresh ubuntu install to see what we could improve on our end.