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Ruby

Posted by Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points

Ruby on Rails>Sublime Text

When I type in scaffold on Ruby on Rails command prompt and open up sublime text, it doesn't show my website name, such as in the video it showed treebook when he opened sublime text, I'm using windows and there's no teacher's note to this matter. Seriously..not all pple can afford a Mac.

Carl Reyes
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points

First, you don't need to use a Mac, you can use any Linux distribution, which is free.

Second, for Rails development on a Windows machine you should look into Cygwin

Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
188 Points

I know I don't need a Mac, I'm just saying because they only decided to give tutorials on a Mac leaving all windows users lost. I've had two problems during this project because the way things were done in the tutorials was only compatible for Mac. And if I use Cygwin I wouldn't know what to do..because apparently..they only gave tutorials for Mac users thinking that everyone who'd stream across their stuff would be a Mac user. In the video he doesn't even explain or show how the treebook folder was already there on sublime text. He just opened it up and said "just find your folder..etc" yeah..but HOW do we find the damn folder, freaking looked all over sublime text, what was I supposed to expect, that it would just pop up there on the left........I've had too many problems with treehouse, every time I contact them they tell me "go to the forum and pple there will help you :)" Ohhh really??? I thought this was YOUR jop treehouse, what am I paying you for then??? ...ridiculous!

1 Answer

Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points
Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points

Instead of using the ruby command prompt you should just be using the normal windows command prompt. I recommend creating the project file on your desktop in command prompt. mkdir project_name Then do all of the rails stuff such as generating your project. Then open up sublime text and drag the folder from the desktop into the sublime text view. You will then be able to see everything that they can on the video.