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Posted by Michael Bardwell-Scott
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Michael Bardwell-Scott
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,653 Points

Rails Apps not working

For some reason my rails apps that I've been building along with the instructors wont work outside of the treehouse VM. I can't figure out why this is. Is this because the VM is a development environment? Or am I missing something.

3 Answers

David Moore
David Moore
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David Moore
David Moore
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You will need a similar environment wherever you plan to run the app, be that local development or deploying for public use. If you are trying to run locally without having ruby and rails properly installed, it is not going to work.

If you feel you do have you local environment properly configured, post the exact error message you get and we can try to offer additional information.

Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
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Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
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You stated that you've been using the VM but do you have rails installed locally on your machine?

I don't use the VM but I would think that if you had the project folder on your hard disk and you had rails properly installed then you could just run "rails server" or (bin/rails server) and it would work. I could be wrong though.

Michael Bardwell-Scott
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Michael Bardwell-Scott
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,653 Points

Yeah, you would think it would be as simple as just doing a 'rails server' but it just quits instantly.

Michael Bardwell-Scott
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Michael Bardwell-Scott
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,653 Points
Michael Bardwell-Scott
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Michael Bardwell-Scott
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 6,653 Points

You both were right, I needed to reinstall rails locally. Everything works now.

Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
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Dan Mirda
Dan Mirda
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Glad everything works!