Rails 5.2.0 with Ruby 2.5.1 console – `warning:` `already` initialized constant FileUtils::VERSION

I had the same issue. The one step missing from your post is to uninstall the fileutils gem first, then gem update with the default option. gem uninstall fileutils Successfully uninstalled fileutils-1.1.0 gem update fileutils –default Updating installed gems Updating fileutils Fetching: fileutils-1.1.0.gem (100%) Successfully installed fileutils-1.1.0 That got rid of the verbose fileutils messages … Read more