No offense, but I suggest you ditch the Lynda tutorial. If it doesn't mention a gem file or a bundle command, that's not a good sign.
The best (and only) guide to every beginner to Ruby on Rails is a book, called Agile Web Development with Rails. You can find it here: http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails Dheeraj Kumar On Sunday 2 September 2012 at 10:23 PM, Bruce Whealton wrote: > Bill, > First, I really appreciate your help. At the risk of sounding naïve, > in response to Dheeraj’s post that “You need to add it to the gemfile and > run the bundle command.” How do I do that? I guess this is where I need to > be more specific about where I left off. Ok, the tutorial that I mentioned > here: > http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/ > uses the Webrick server. For some reason, when I started that server and > then tried to view the page using port 3000, it did not connect. Therefore, > I had my VirtualBox setup with Ubuntu and using Apache2 on port 8080, which I > could get to from my host OS. I wasn’t seeing that test app described at the > above link, until I went into the folder http://localhost:8080/test_app/ > Of course, now, for some reason, I cannot get into any of the apps that > I just installed hours ago. I get Not Found at the test_app link that I > included just above. I can go to the http://localhost:8080/ uri and see some > web content that was put there. However, the test_app that worked fine just > a little while ago, is not working now. Had it been working I would have > said that the last problem to address is creating an application with mysql > support. > It is frustrating that my problem is now apparently related to my Linux > installation on my system and I cannot address the other issues of moving on > to learning RoR. > 1) test_app from the tutorial: > http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/ > **was** working fine with apache2, not with Webrick. Unlike in that > tutorial, I couldn’t go to just http://localhost:8080 or localhost:3000, I > had to add the directory in my browsers address bar, then I think I had to go > into public. > 2) How are you installing the mysql2 gem? Are you using Bundler? In the > above referenced tutorial, I didn’t need mysql. However, when I added that > to the command line: > rails new simple_cms –d mysql > I got the message: “An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.3.11), and > Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that ‘gem install mysqsl2 –v ‘0.3.11’` > succeeds before bundling. So, I then enter > gem install mysql2 –v ‘0.3.11’ > Then I try my install again... when asked to continue and over-write, I say > Y. Then I get the same error. > What is curious is that if I include the ` after the gem install mysql –v > ‘0.3.11’ it gives me a different prompt. > 3) Is the gem specified in the Gemfile? Were you able to rake db:migrate or > is that where you're having your problem? > I don’t know what the latter means. I can look at the Gemfile and it has > this in it: > source :rubygems > > gemspec > > I know it is somewhat off topic, but I have to somehow figure out why the > apps I created previously, php and the RoR app (without the msyql support) > are not now accessible from a browser. > Thanks, > Bruce > > > > > > From: Bill Walton (mailto:[email protected]) > Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 7:29 AM > To: [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > Subject: Re: [Rails] Help getting started: Newbie: Windows and Rails > > > > > Hi Bruce, > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Bruce Whealton <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Anyway, I keep going in circles. I get a message saying that I need to > > install gem msyql2 which I do and it reports back with no error and so I > > try again to install the app with the rails command and I get the same > > error. > > > I took a quick look at that tutorial, and if that's all you did you should be > getting the index.html file that Rails installs (the tutorial left out the > part where it tells you that you have to delete it). If you did that, then > you're into the app itself and your problem description doesn't say much > about what you did in addition to the tutorial. > > > So.... need a little more info. How are you installing the mysql2 gem? Are > you using Bundler? Is the gem specified in the Gemfile? Were you able to > rake db:migrate or is that where you're having your problem? > > Best regards, > Bill > -- > 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] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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