I was playing around with “SPREE COMMERCE”after a long term on my windows machine , before this have always used my linux box for Spree commerce .
However got stuck at the very first step after bootstrapping a fresh application .
Error :
After scratching head for long and loosing 20 hairs atleast drilled down to source of error and monkey patched the error .
Moreover after a little digging, it was evident that the ‘relative_path_from’ method in ‘/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb’ file had the problem. The problem was also described as a ticket at http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1366 and the excerpt of the issue is shown below:
Monkey Patch :
I added the capitalize! keyword at the end of the two lines so that both the paths are in uppercase, so that later in the code ( ) shown below does not barf and give us the error we got shown in the first error of the post.
Overriding original :

