HOW THE BLEEP DO YOU INSTALL RUBY ON RAILS ON WINDOWS 7?!?

Question

I have scoured through about 30 forum posts on google, about 5 books and 2 video tutorials. NONE of them say the same thing, and NONE of them are correct. 37 signals, and all these people who claim they are experts, that cant even install the program that they're experts on, really need to get it together.

If I mapped out, out of the figment of my imagination, the most hellish installation possible, it wouldn't even come close to how hard it is to install Ruby on Rails. Anyways, I've heard great things about this framework from friends, who say I should look at it. And I would like to know, step by step, nothing excluded, how to get Ruby up and running, completely error free (no 'not founds' on the homepage either). THANKS

Answer 1

Do this:

http://railsinstaller.org/

Answer 2

Maybe a lot of trouble installing Ruby on Rails on Windows (while looking). here's how:

Step 1: Install Ruby

* donwload Ruby from http://rubyinstaller.org/download.html. The difference with existing files in http://ruby-lang.org is, in rubyinstaller.org already existing binary files needed to run on Windows (already compiled with MinGW).

* There are two options for files, for download. In the form of executable files and which has been compressed with 7-zip. You can select one.

* For example Install / extract files have been downloaded to C: \ Ruby

* Ruby is ready for use

Nb: should you add C: \ Ruby \ bin to the PATH in User Variables or System Variables

Step 2: Install Gems

Gem is its package manager for Ruby. This is similar to apt-get, yum, or rpm on Linux distributions.

* Download Gems of http://rubygems.org

* Extract to C: \ RubyGems

* If in Step 1 you use the installer, you can click 2x the file C: \ RubyGems \ setup.rb

* If Step 1 uses 7z file, you can open a command prompt, then type

C: \ Ruby \ bin \ ruby C: \ RubyGems \ setup.rb

Gem is ready for use.

Step 3: Install Rails

* At the command prompt, type

C: \ Ruby \ bin \ gem install rails

This requires an internet connection

Yups, Ruby on Rails has been ready for use

If you want to install MySQL, type

C: \ Ruby \ bin \ gem install mysql

Answer 3

The best solution for installing rails is www.installrails.com.



It uses the RailsInstaller application and provides a lot of troubleshooting that you'll probably run into along the way.