Help needed with 'Generating a rails app'

I don't want to discourage you from your OS of choice, but you may want to consider installing a Virtual Machine and running Ubuntu Linux.

It's not simply a matter of generating a new rails app, but 99% of the documentation for Ruby on Rails at Treehouse and on the rest of the 'net, focuses on POSIX (Linux, Darwin, etc.) OS based systems.

When you run into an issue that you'll need to resolve or ask for help on, it's much easier to get help using Linux or Mac.

The reason for this is that while Windows is a popular OS for gaming and home use, most of the systems running on the internet run on Linux.

If you're not familiar with Linux, I'd recommend taking a step back from the Rails course, and go through the Console Foundations first - it's an excellent course.

It may seem like a lot of effort, but it's certainly worth while in the long run.

Or you can use a service like nitrous to develop into the browser , if you have a capable computer . im not a member of nitrous , i just like the product and it serve me well. and they have a collaborate feature that will help you if you want to do some pair programming. they have a free plan and because they use Linux , you will be free of those windows errors.

I wrote up a small tutorial on how to get past these issues:

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/unofficial-guide-to-actually-finishing-the-ror-intro-tutorial

Check it out and let me know what you think?

nice ! Thanks ! I will investigate further and may come back to you with some questions ..

This is awesome ryorke.

Started this months ago and dreaded coming back to it. With your guide and Nitrous, I can finally finish it.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help the rest of us.