On 22 August 2012 10:23, Bruce Whealton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I started trying to learn Ruby on Rails from a course on Lynda.com. > Unfortunately, I got stuck early on after installing things. First, I got an > error trying to install a first application called simple_cms. I read a bit > about the error (after doing a web search) and found directions telling me to > get DevKit and run about 3 commands. The config file only had one line in it > that would be effected by DevKit and that was my ruby folder c:\Ruby193. > Then I was able to run: rails new simple_cms -d mysql > and I think it was successful. The instructor suggested the Webbrick server. > This would not start for me. This is one of those cases where it would help > to have the output of errors and other messages to share and try to get help > figuring out what went wrong. > Since, I have done development in other languages, I changed to > installing the app into a folder under xampp\htdocs which seemed to work > until I got to the next step of generating a controller. It failed to create > controller demo with view index. > Any suggestions as to what I should do? I am using Windows 7 64 bit. > I do have VirtualBox and Ubuntu Server 12.04 installed also but I ran into > problems with getting ruby on rails up and running in that also. For now, I > guess, I'd like to first figure out how to get this running in my Windows > environment.
Apparently some have succeeded with rails development in windows, I believe that railsinstaller.org is the best way. If you have access to ubuntu however then do it there, you will have a much more pleasant experience and will find it much easier to get help. For installing in ubuntu then http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/ is pretty good.. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
