# Getting Started problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-started-problem/134603>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 12, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-started-problem/134603 "2008-04-12T20:09:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@sam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-started-problem/134603/1 "2008-04-12T20:09:56Z")

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I want to try Ruby on Rails. I know nothing about Ruby or Rails. I  
followed the installation instructions for Windows on  
[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.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down).

I directed my browser at [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) and I get the “Welcome  
Aboard (You’re riding Ruby on Rails!)” screen. The first link on the  
page is “About Your Application’s Environment” (-\>  
[http://localhost:3000/rails/info/properties](http://localhost:3000/rails/info/properties)), which when clicked gets  
this error:

MissingSourceFile in Rails/infoController#properties

no such file to load – sqlite3

RAILS\_ROOT: C:/ruby-app

This error occurred while loading the following files: sqlite3

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

-Sam

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**Author:** ![sam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@sam](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-started-problem/134603/2 "2008-04-12T20:17:00Z")

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Sam wrote:

> I want to try Ruby on Rails. I know nothing about Ruby or Rails. I  
> followed the installation instructions for Windows on [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.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/down).

There is only one way to start learning Rails - the book /Agile Web  
Development  
with Rails/, by the Daves. If you don’t get it, you will only suffer.  
All of  
these newsgroups and online documentations (correctly) assume you have  
read that  
book. That way we don’t waste our time with the simple stuff, and can  
proceed  
directly to the fun stuff!

> no such file to load – sqlite3

Read config/database.yml, then install both sqlite3 and ruby-sqlite3!

–  
Phlip