[Rails] Question about fresh GEM install

[Trevor]

Jim Weirich wrote:

>Try:   rake --version
>to get the version of rake you are using.  If it is not in the 0.4.xx
>series, I recommend updating.
>  
>

machine > rake --version
rake, version 0.4.15

One thing that may be important is that I don't have write access to the 
directory that the Rails gem is installed in 
(/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.9.3) since I'm not an admin 
of this machine, would this be a possible cause of the problem?