# Newbie questions about Rails on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 15, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337 "2005-12-15T12:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337/1 "2005-12-15T12:50:09Z")
My background is Windows development using Visual Studio and I’m trying to get up to speed with Ruby on Rails, so please excuse these basic questions. I’ve downloaded InstantRails and can run the sample application - so Apache, MySQL, Ruby etc. are working. Where’s the “development environment”? Where do I go to edit files, create models and controllers etc? Where can I run unit tests and see a green bar on success? Do I need some other applications perhaps? Thanks Julian ---
**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337/2 "2005-12-15T12:55:27Z")
Hi Julian , Actually we dont have a Developement enviroment as such for ruby on rails like we have Visual Studio 6 or visual studio 2003.You can make use of any text editors or the basic Notepad for creating the Rails related files and editing those . Also you should use the dos command prompt for entering the ruby related commands like the "ruby script/server " . Thanx and regards, Naroor R., > **[Personal blog of Ratish Naroor | A travelogue by Ratish Naroor](http://naroor.blogspot.com/)** > > Ratish Naroor shares his life experiences including travelogues , hiking , photography and personal well being . ---
**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337/3 "2005-12-15T13:09:08Z")
Hi julian, Personally i use RadRails ide which is based on eclipse. You can find it via [http://www.radrails.org/](http://www.radrails.org/). And also there is Komodo ( [Komodo IDE By ActiveState - One IDE for All Your Languages](http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/) ) which have an educational free licance option. Good days… ---
**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337/4 "2005-12-15T19:47:34Z")
Thanks, everyone, for the info and suggestions. I am trying RadRails, which is the sort of thing I was looking for. Still looking for a test runner, though. Julian ---
**Author:** ![juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@juliangall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juliangall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-questions-about-rails-on-windows/50337/5 "2005-12-15T14:12:16Z")
On 15 Dec 2005, at 11:50, Julian G. wrote: > Where’s the “development environment”? Where do I go to edit files, > create models and controllers etc? Where can I run unit tests and > see a > green bar on success? Do I need some other applications perhaps? Rails isn’t an IDE like Visual Studio; it’s a framework. You might want to check out the excellent Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorial [1] which will talk you through starting with RoR using Windows and will give you a sample project to play with. [1] [Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html?page=1) ## Yours, Craig Craig W. | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [Xeriom.NET](http://Xeriom.NET) | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: [http://xeriom.net](http://xeriom.net)