Making progress.

 I've used the gem uninstall command to remove all my gems - I'm gemless.

Now how should I manually check for rails or active anything. If I run a locate command on rails or activerecord it appears they are both lurking on my computer.

Then once I get all of references off my computer, I should run  "gem install -y rails"

Again, I really appreciate you help. I've been banging my head on the wall on this for about a week.