Forum: Ruby on Rails New to Rails

I am trying to setup as per the instructions in step and I am completly
lost.
Why are $ signs shown on lines to input? Windows does not understand 
them.
I think I have got a error running Rails Server as it hangs in the 
command
prompt screen and won't accept any typed commands.

I am a PHP programmer at the moment and I find this extreamely difficult 
to
understand.  The instructions are not clear, they assume that the user
understands what is going on, which is not always the case.

I comparison WAMP was a dodle to install.

Can someone advise where I go from here?

Hi there!
The $ signs represent the prompt - you do not enter them. It is the
equivalent of showing something like c:\> in windows - the generally
accepted way to designate 'this is a shell command'. So:

$ rails new myapp

Is telling you to type "rails new myapp" - no $ sign.

rails server doesn't have any input - you run it, and it shows you the 
log.
There is nothing to type into it.

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:54:48 PM UTC, Rocky48 wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup as per the instructions in step and I am completly
> lost.
> Why are $ signs shown on lines to input? Windows does not understand them.
>

In a unixy environment $ denotes the prompt - you don't type it.


> I think I have got a error running Rails Server as it hangs in the command
> prompt screen and won't accept any typed commands.
>
> That's normal: once you've started the server it runs until you quit it -
you can't type any more commands into that command prompt.


> I am a PHP programmer at the moment and I find this extreamely difficult
> to understand.  The instructions are not clear, they assume that the user
> understands what is going on, which is not always the case.
>
> I comparison WAMP was a dodle to install.
>
>
Can someone advise where I go from here?
>

You might find a more windows centric set of instructions easier to 
follow,
or if you can link to the instructions you are following and describe 
where
you are stuck someone should be able to help out.

Fred