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Ruby

Posted by Joseph Koch
Joseph Koch
3,393 Points

Trouble Executing Server Start Command - Windows

Currently I am working on setting up Ruby on Rails for Windows. I have followed all the steps, which have been working well up to this point. When I try to use the command "bundle exec rails server", it gives me a different message than the man on the video got. Instead of going right to the notification saying it is working, it first says "DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle". Then it proceeds to say it started development. For some reason once the development is is started, it says something about not being able to find the timezone, then it prints a bunch of paths. I have no idea what's going on. Just to see if it works I've tried typing http://localhost:3000/ into my browser. However, it says that it is unable to access the network. The only problem is I have great internet right now. I have been trying to get the Ruby development started by running the commands inside this directory: "C:\Users\Joseph\Documents\testapp". If you anyone could let me know what I am doing wrong that would be great.

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

its most likely an issue with your tzinfo and tzinfo-data gems. open your gemfile, find the lines where it says 

gem 'tzinfo', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin]
gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin]

change it so that it reads 

gem 'tzinfo', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw]
gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw]

this adds support for 64bit versions of windows, which you are probably using.

if you did not find those lines at all, go ahead and add the lines above to your gem file. so just paste the following in your gemfile

gem 'tzinfo', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw]
gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw]

after that run the following command in terminal after navigating to your project file

bundle install

after that try starting the server again