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bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 PointsInstalling Rails
I am having trouble launching the rails server. I installed rails, created the treebook application, switched to the treebook directory and launched rails with the command "rails s", but it wont launch. I might have deleted or moved around some files. Since I dont know what I did...I uninstalled rails and reinstalled but I still cannot get rails to start. Please help me diagnose the problem.
Also, does it matter where I install Rails to? I have rails installed on c:/sites by default and I create my treebook application under c:/users.
7 Answers
Joseph Hall
10,865 PointsIt does not matter where you install rails ( at leat for me) To run the rails server, type in the tree book directory terminal line rails s or rails server. Then navigate your web browser to localhost:3000 and that should get you there. If you need any help uninstalling rails, let me know.
When you create a migration ( like you will in the next video, go to localhost:3000/statuses to see the statuses and to post a new one. Hope this helps, Joseph
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIt sounds like a permissions issue. I'd suggest you uninstall / reinstall, this time accepting the defaults for where rails wants to install to.
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 PointsThanks for helping guys. I did uninstall rails and reinstalled ( I uninstalled by clicking on the uninstall file inside the Rails folder, then deleting the folder) many times, but this doesn't work. I think I need to delete some more files somewhere?
Joseph- I typed rails server on the treebook directory and the prompt spits out some language that as a novice I do not understand.
Jack Carr
7,329 PointsIf you are on a 64 bit windows system, things get a little tricky
Look for this error message 193: %1 is not a valid win32 application.
If you have that message, google it for a fix :)
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 PointsI did not see that error message when I type in "rails s". What I do see is "Could not find a Javascript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs for a list of available runtimes. Who is sstephenson?
James Barnett
39,199 Points@Robert - Try installing Node from http://nodejs.org/ and see if that fixes it.
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 PointsThanks James. It worked!