Rick is a student and web developer in Miami, FL. He works with Ruby on Rails, attends Florida International University, and runs FIUSM.com.
Instead of going through hell to get a fresh project with edge Rails up and running with the latest Rails default configs, routes, etc., just do the following:
$ mkdir project; cd project
$ svn co http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk/ vendor/rails
$ ruby vendor/rails/railties/bin/rails .
Please note that the ruby in the final line is necessary.