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In this video, you'll learn how to install a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Windows.
Note: A more current version of this workshop is available here.
Install Ruby
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
Install cmdr
http://cmder.net/
Install git
http://git-scm.com/download/win
Configure git
git config --global user.name "Jason Seifer"
git config --global user.email jason@teamtreehouse.com
Download and Install MySQL
MySQL can be downloaded from the MySQL Download Page.
Install sublimetext
Create a new app
mkdir projects
cd projects
rails new testapp
cd testapp
subl -n .
bin\rails server
Create a quick scaffold
bin\rails generate scaffold name title:string first:string last:string
bin\rake db:migrate
bin\rails s
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Hi, I'm Jason, the Ruby teacher here at
Treehouse.
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In this workshop,
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we're going to set up a Ruby on Rails
development environment in Windows.
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We're going to download and install Ruby,
Cmder,
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a few different databases, a text editor,
and a couple other different dependencies.
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Next, we'll generate a quick Rails
application to make sure everything's
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working and test it out in a web browser.
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Now, let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay, so let's go ahead and
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install Ruby on Rails development
environment on our Windows computer.
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Now, for demonstration purposes here, I am
using Windows 10.
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This is a preview release of Windows 10,
but
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these instructions still apply from
Windows 7 up.
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Now, the first thing that we need to do is
download and install Ruby.
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So, I'm going to use Google Chrome to head
over to the RubyInstaller downloads page.
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This is it, rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
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You can also find this in the notes right
below the video here.
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So, go ahead and click on Ruby 2.1.6.
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Now, you'll see there are differences.
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One says x64 and one does not.
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The x64 means it's for a 64-bit version.
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If your Windows is x64, then go ahead and
grab the x64 version.
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This actually applies to most software
that you will be using.
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Once that finishes downloading, head on
over to your Downloads folder and
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double-click it, and press Run.
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Click I accept the license after fully
reading the terms of the license.
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And then also make sure to check this
button, Add ruby executables to your PATH.
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Now, I'm backing out the -x64, and
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just installing this to the Ruby21
directory on the C drive.
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Then, press the Install button.
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Okay, great that finished.
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The other thing that we need to download
from the RubyInstaller page
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Is something called the dev kit.
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This is going to make it easier to install
certain other RubyGems and
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libraries that we might need.
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Now, I'm using the x64 version.
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So, I'm going to grab this one, which is
for use with Ruby 2.0 and 2.1.
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We downloaded 2.1.
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Now, the reason that we downloaded 2.1 as
of the recording of this screencast, that
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is the best version of Ruby to use with
Windows mainly for compatibility reasons.
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Now, once again go back to the folder
where it downloaded.
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Double-click and type run.
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Now, I'm going to extract this to
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the DevKit directory inside of the Ruby
installation that we just created.
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That is not created by default, so I'm
gonna have to type it in.
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Ruby21\devkit.
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And then, press Extract.
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Then go ahead and wait for all these files
to extract.
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Okay, there is another installation
process that we do need to do for
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the DevKit, and we're gonna get right back
to that.
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First, we're gonna download, something
that is not entirely required,
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but does make things a lot nicer, and
that's called Cmder.
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And this is a console emulator for
Windows.
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It also includes some other dependencies
for
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us that make developing with Rails a
little bit easier.
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Let's go ahead and hit Download full.
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Okay, once Cmder finishes downloading, go
ahead and
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inside of that folder, press Extract All.
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I'm just gonna leave it in this directory.
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And that will go ahead and extract.
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So once Cmder finishes, go ahead and
double-click it to open it.
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You can add this, or pin it to your Start
Menu.
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Now, go ahead and click on Run.
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And we get this nice emulator window.
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Okay, so once we get Cmder up and running,
now we can start to install some things.
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First, open your web browser back up and
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go over to rubygems.org.
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We need to install a couple of different
gems that Rails needs in order to start
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creating Rails applications.
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And this is just a Windows specific thing
that we need to do.
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Click on SQLite3, and then notice we have
different versions of SQLite3.
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Click Show all versions.
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Now, depending on whether you downloaded
the regular or
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64-bit version of ruby, that's the version
that we need to see here.
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So, grab the latest one.
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I am going to be using the x64 version of
1.3.10.
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Scroll down on the right side of the
screen, click on Download.
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This contains a precompiled version of
different Ruby libraries that we'll need.
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The next gem that we need to download is
called Nokogiri.
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And just like before, click show all
versions, and
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then get the most recent version.
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It says x64.
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Then scroll to the right and press
Download.
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Now I'm gonna minimize this and head back
to our Cmder console.
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I'm in the user's Jason Seifer directory.
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So now, I'm in the Downloads directory,
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which is where we just downloaded these
gem files.
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Now, type, gem install.
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And you can start typing the name of the
gem you downloaded.
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I typed s and q, and then pressed tab.
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And click allow access for the Ruby
interpreter to do network installation.
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Then do the same thing with the Nokogiri
gem.
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While Nokogiri's installing, we're going
to setup some other dependencies for
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our Rails environment.
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I'm going to download the Sublime Text
text editor.
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This is not a requirement.
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If you have a text editor that you like
more than Sublime Text, you can use that.
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This is just for demonstration purposes.
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And I'm going to allow this app to make
changes to my PC.
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I'm also going to add to the explorer
context menu.
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Okay, so, Sublime Text is now installed.
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Looks like Nokogiri is still working.
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In the meantime, I'm also going to
download MySQL for Windows.
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Now, we'll have a link in the notes right
below this video to download MySQL for
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Windows.
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And you can click, No thanks, just start
my download.
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Now, it looks Nokogiri has finished
installing.
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Let's go ahead and launch Sublime Text.
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Now, we're going to create a File,
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and type, gem: --no-document.
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Now save this inside of your user folder.
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And call it .gemrc.
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This is going to tell RubyGems to not
install the documentation for
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gems that we install on the command line.
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That's also not necessary to do, but it
does speed up gem installation.
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Now, I'm going to install a couple gems
using the command line.
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I'm going to install Bundler, which is a
gem that rails needs.
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And now I can install Rails.
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This is going to take a little while.
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Now that Rails has been installed, let's
go ahead and check on our MySQL download.
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It looks like that has finished
downloading.
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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And we do wanna allow this program to make
changes to our computer.
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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Go ahead and click full install.
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And then click Execute.
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We don't need to worry about this failure
right now because it's not going to
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impact our Rails applications.
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Click Next and make sure that Development
Machine is checked.
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Choose a root password.
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Make sure that you remember it.
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And also, start the MySQL server at system
startup.
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Depending on your version of Windows, you
might get a message
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saying that the service list has changed,
it's okay to dismiss that notification.
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Now click Next and make sure to check your
route password is correct, and
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then click Next.
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At the Apply Server Configuration screen,
press Execute, and then click Finish.
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Click Next, and then click Finish.
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Now tab back to Cmder.
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We're almost ready to configure
everything.
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Now I'm going to change back a directory,
so now I'm in my regular user folder.
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And I'm going to also change into the
documents folder.
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We're about to generate our Rails
application.
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First, let's go ahead and configure Git,
which comes with Cmder.
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I'm gonna configure my username, which is
Jason Seifer.
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And I'm also gonna use this global command
to configure my email address.
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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I'm finally ready to create my Rails
application.
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I do that with the rails command, rails
new,
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and then the name of the application, in
this case it's going to be example app.
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Now if we get this error saying the, json
native gem requires the installed
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build tools, it's because we forgot to
install the DevKit.
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So, go back to the Ruby21 directory and
DevKit.
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And then type, ruby dk.rb init.
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And then, ruby dk.rb install.
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[BLANK_AUDIO]
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Now, we can go back to our documents
directory, and
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the example app directory, and type
bundle.
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Now that that's done, type rails server.
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Now, let's go back to our web browser.
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And go to localhost on port 3000.
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And now, we've installed a Ruby on Rails
development environment.
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