Forum: Ruby on Rails autodetect': Could not find a JavaScript runtime

Hey

I was working with Railinstaller, but everytime i turned around I found
something new had changed.  Soo I thought I would give Ubuntu a try .  I 
do
like unix better then window.  anyway...  I created a new project then 
went
to run rail server only to find this error - autodetect': Could not find 
a
JavaScript runtime.

I cant seem to get around this problem - any thoughts

Thanks in advance
Jeff

On 9 July 2012 05:22, Jeff Kyzer <kyzereye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey
>
> I was working with Railinstaller, but everytime i turned around I found
> something new had changed.  Soo I thought I would give Ubuntu a try .  I do
> like unix better then window.  anyway...  I created a new project then went
> to run rail server only to find this error - autodetect': Could not find a
> JavaScript runtime.

Have a look at the Rails Guide on Getting Started.  Section 4.1
explains what this is about.

Colin

Hi,

Include rubyracer and execjs gems in ur gemfile install the bundle and 
go
for it.

Is there somewhere that explains the new updates to gem files like 
needing
rubyracer or execjs - like what things have changed?  When I first 
started
working with rails about 4 months ago there was no need for
thanks

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Jeff Kyzer <kyzereye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there somewhere that explains the new updates to gem files like needing
> rubyracer or execjs - like what things have changed?  When I first started
> working with rails about 4 months ago there was no need for
> thanks

I looked and didn't see much either.  Ended up running `apt-get
install nodejs` to make it stop complaining.  Seems like they are
assuming a lot about anyone's particular website needs these days.
"Your website doesn't have a server side js backend?  You are so
2011!"


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Greg Donald

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Kyzer <kyzereye@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey
>
> I was working with Railinstaller, but everytime i turned around I found
> something new had changed.  Soo I thought I would give Ubuntu a try .  I do
> like unix better then window.  anyway...  I created a new project then went
> to run rail server only to find this error - autodetect': Could not find a
> JavaScript runtime.

$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

This will remove your problem.

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Mandeep Kaur
http://mandeepsimak.wordpress.com/