Installing RailsInstaller

RailsInstaller gives you ruby, rails, git, and a bash shell, all in one nice package. But there were problems. (And right now, Windows only)
Recipe:

  1. Go to web page.
  2. Download installer.
  3. Install
  4. Create first rails project. To do this I had to change the first line of rails located in C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.2\bin to point to my ruby.  It should look like this:
    !C:/railsinstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/ruby.exe
  5. Start up the bash shell. It is configure to start in /c/Sites = C:\Sites
  6. rails new <your project>
  7. cd <your project>
  8. rails s
    Which will start the server. Wait until it's up. This takes a while.
  9. Open browser to
    localhost:8080
  10. You should see the rails default page.
There's a fine video that shows all of this (except the fix in (4)) on the RailsInstaller Page.


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