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Ruby

Posted by Nick Hennen
Nick Hennen
7,812 Points

rails server worked the first time and now...

Now it give me a list of options instead of starting the server. I tried to redo the tutorial on treebook by directing the treebook to the the project directory.

3 Answers

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Probably because you were not in the directory of your rails app. If my app is located in "Sites/Projects/myapp", then when opening a terminal you have to cd into it then run rails server.

The commands are:

cd Sites/Projects/myapp
rails s (shortcut for rails server)

If instead you do:

cd Sites/Projects (notice I'm not in my rails app)
rails s

The terminal will give you options because there is not rails app there and needs you to create one first.

Nick Hennen
Nick Hennen
7,812 Points
Nick Hennen
Nick Hennen
7,812 Points

It is working now. I'm not sure what was happening but I added a "/" at the end of commands like cd projects/

Nick Hennen
Nick Hennen
7,812 Points
Nick Hennen
Nick Hennen
7,812 Points

Thank you, it seems to work with or with out the slashes sometimes if the directory commands are entered in individually.

such as:

cd Sites

then

cd Projects

then

cd myapp

then

rails server