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selvam
selvam

Reputation: 1197

How to start Ruby on Rails in windows 8?

I am new one for Ruby on Rails.

Please tell the requirements for Ruby on Rails.

I am using windows 8 (64bit) operating system.

And tell which SDK is suitable for RoR in windows8.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5605

Answers (4)

Fred
Fred

Reputation: 1

If you can track down an old version of instant rails...you may be ok! It seems to be somewhat self-contained and builds apps within its own little world! Unfortunately it has Ruby version 187, Instant Rails 2.0 It seems to work ok!

Upvotes: 0

RahulOnRails
RahulOnRails

Reputation: 6542

Refer Link : Rails Installer

Link One : Install ROR in Windows 8

Link Two : ROR for Windows 8

Avoid windows as your development server because windows does not have to much library support for Rails application.

Playing at Ubuntu with Rails is like driving Ferrari .... I am agree with @Pavling suggestion about VM having Ubuntu12.04 LTS. I am also using the same way.

Limitations In Running Rails on Windows

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Loureiro
Daniel Loureiro

Reputation: 5363

The ruby/rails/rubyinstaller has many bugs in Windows 8. Today still the best choice, but:

  • you cannot install Ruby 2.0 in Windows 8 - it's not compatible with Rails 4 in Windows 8. You need to install 1.9.3 in order to use Rails 4 (and you probally will waste some time until realize this because there's no sign of this and it's even make sense)
  • if you don't install Ruby in the exactly folder as is suggested, (e.g.: if you install in something like "d:\my apps\ruby"), it won't work, because the installer have trouble dealing with special characters, with whitespaces in the path, with more than 8 characters in the folder name (reminds me the old ms-dos), and I guess that some lines in the source-code has this default path explicitly written.
  • if you don't install the dev-kit manually via command-line, it won't work.
  • even that you have a 64bits OS you need to install the 32bits version of Devkit compiled in 32bits - at least now they warn this in the main page (3 months ago you need to discover this in the hard way).
  • don't forget to ALWAYS call devkitvars.bar before the first Rails/gem command in the cmd
  • yes, installing gems will generate "lib" errors - there's nothing that you can do, just ignore them
  • finally, Windows 8 Javascript it's incompatible with Rails 4 - you need to change the runtimes.rb of "execjs" gem. The bugged line is the "JScript = ExternalRuntime.new ...". You need to remove the "//U" of ":command" and change the ":encoding" from "UTF-16LE" to "UTF-8".

I made a video explaining how to install Rails 4 in Windows 8. It's in portuguese, but I believe that you can follow what it's on screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPM9nwUQqZ0

Upvotes: 2

bluehallu
bluehallu

Reputation: 10285

You don't need any SDK. Install ruby itself:

http://rubyinstaller.org/

This will also install RubyGems (which is the dependency manager) and finally install Rails using RubyGems:

gem install rails

And you're good to go!

Upvotes: 0

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