To run the unit tests, you will need the sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1) gem. You must also checkout/export Rails' active support and active record to vendor like this: svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/branches/1-2-stable/activesupport vendor/activesupport svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/branches/1-2-stable/activerecord vendor/activerecord