I had Rails installed using Debian packages from the official repository and thought I'd try out RoR development. So I started the cookbook example in the article Rolling with Ruby on Rails. Not so fast, I was getting an error because it was not properly translating the domain object name to the correct database table. It was not translating "Recipe" into the "cookbook.recipes" table like it should, and instead was looking for the table "cookbook.Recipe". I worked around this by changing the database table, but that only worked until I tried to add more than one record. So I followed the instructions from the RoR website on installing for Debian unstable. After using gem to get the latest, I recreated the app, and its now working.