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Posted by Isabell Chang
Isabell Chang
Courses Plus Student 1,557 Points

Complete beginner. Having trouble with Ruby cmd

I am a beginner to programming. I'm on the Ruby on Rails course (using Windows) and I'm trying to follow the instructions for creating the treebook project but each time I try to follow the instructor I get a message saying "is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Please let me know if there is anything that could help me out. Thanks!

Lee Hughes
Lee Hughes
8,380 Points
Lee Hughes
Lee Hughes
8,380 Points

Can you paste what you are typing here?

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If you are on Windows, you can skip the "rvm use" command. Try following along after that and let us know if it works.

Isabell Chang
Isabell Chang
Courses Plus Student 1,557 Points

I didn't realize that there were additional notes for Windows under the video. Thank you! It worked. I am now on the step where you type in "generate scaffold status name:string content:text". It generated everything but when I open Sublime Text 2 I can't seem to view any of the content like you see in the video. I can't find my treebook folder anywhere. I will try it again but I've followed everything step by step. Is there something I'm missing?

Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The treebook folder should be located wherever you ran the command in the command prompt. So if you were in the "My Documents" folder, treebook would be located there. Try looking around in Windows Explorer to see if you can find it. Then drag it in to sublime text from the windows explorer or do "File" and then "Open" in Sublime Text.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

If you are having trouble finding your folder try searching.

Here's a tutorial on searching in Windows 7 if you are having trouble

Isabell Chang
Isabell Chang
Courses Plus Student 1,557 Points

Thank you all! I have found it and will proceed with the instructions. I really appreciate all the help!