Installing Ruby on Rails on windows

Question

I am in the process of installing Ruby on Rails on windows 7. I installed ruby-1.9.2 (in c:\ruby) and I've installed rails using the gem install rails command (doing this from c:\ruby\bin since this is the only place i can call the command). I've then run rails new my_app command.

The problem that I have is trying to run the rails server command from inside the apps folder (c:\ruby\bin\my_app) I get the message: 'rails' is not recognized....

What have I done wrong?

Solution 1

On Windows you need to set your system PATH variable (My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System variables)

Append the PATH Variable value:: c:\ruby\bin;

Solution 2

I'm a windows 7 user, and I was able to get rails working by following this guide: http://www.wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Windows_-_Rails_3 I know linking is frowned upon, but the windows 7 installations is quite detailed, and the devchix guide is excellent. I store my apps on the desktop in a folder called 'rails' not in the ruby bin.

Comments

[Nachshon Schwartz]

I'll try it and get back to you, did you find any problems with using RoR on windows 7?

[John]

There are some annoyances when trying new features, but no real problems. If I had a mac/linux, I'd use it instead of windows 7 because it seems to be the preferred platform on all the tutorials and add-ons.

[Nachshon Schwartz]

This solved the problem just it needs to be a bit more specific the path at least by me to rails.bat is c:\ruby\bin\rails.bat and i added at the end of the existing path in the system variables the above route seperated from the rest of the text already there by a semi-colon, if you can just correct your answer it would be greatly apprecheated

[Pragnesh Vaghela]

You should also try this Windows Ruby on Rails installer rubyinside.com/…

[andreshg112]

No working for me. Neither the comment of "rails.bat"

[andreshg112]

My solution: stackoverflow.com/questions/35386310/…