First impressions from a newbie on setting up ruby on rails

Rails
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After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the
download page Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern., I decided to go for
instant rails. The reasons being:

  1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
    error message and there wasn’t anyplace to go for quick answers.

2 the instructions under “make your applicaiton” were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

Is “path/to/your/new/application” a particular path in ruby or just
any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
command or is there something called a script/server that I am
supposed to enter?

I have a masters’ in Computer Science and lots of experience with
various languages. If I’m finding this page confusing, chances are
others will as well.

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On 23 Apr 2008, at 00:31, Michael Phoenix wrote:

After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the
download page Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern., I decided to go for
instant rails. The reasons being:

  1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
    error message and there wasn’t anyplace to go for quick answers.
    You could start by saying what the error was :slight_smile:

2 the instructions under “make your applicaiton” were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

Is “path/to/your/new/application” a particular path in ruby or just
any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
command or is there something called a script/server that I am
supposed to enter?

path/to/your/new/application does just mean ‘wherever you want your
application to be’
ruby script/server will run the script that spawns a server

Fred

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Michael Phoenix wrote:

…

  1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
    error message and there wasn’t anyplace to go for quick answers.

…and what were those strange errors?

2 the instructions under “make your applicaiton” were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

Is “path/to/your/new/application” a particular path in ruby or just
any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
command or is there something called a script/server that I am
supposed to enter?

  1. Any path you choose - it’s just a location for rails to create its
    directory structure and file it with files

  2. There is a server file in the script directory (in the rails
    framework created above). “script/server” is shorthand for this.