# RadRails on Windows XP **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 9, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137 "2006-09-09T18:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/1 "2006-09-09T18:32:37Z")
I’m having trouble setting up RadRails. For one thing, I can’t get it to show any files in a Rails project I started before installing RR. I decided to start another project just for the purpose of experimenting with RR. I’m having trouble setting the preferences. For Window:Preferences:Gems:Rails, I set C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.1.6. There’s also a C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.1.2, but I chose the one with the highest number. For Window:Preferences:Gems:Rake, I set C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rake-0.7.1. I think the problem I’m having is finding the Ruby intrepreter. Examples on the net use the Unix usr/bin/ruby, which doesn’t help me. RR won’t take the nearest equivalent, C:\ruby. I’ve tried both C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe and C:\ruby\bin\irb.bat. I know the last is a batch file, but it was the only irb I could find to point to. When I try to start a Webrick server with RR, it never actually starts. I’m assuming that’s because I haven’t actually pointed RR to a Ruby interpreter, but I don’t know what the heck to point it to. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/2 "2006-09-09T18:38:38Z")
After posting, I found a post on this group that had the ruby intrepreter on Windows as C:\ruby\bin\rubyw.exe. I set RR to point to this and tried to start a Webrick server. Here’s the error message I got from the Console tab: -e:4:in `load’: no such file to load – script/server (LoadError) from -e:4 ---
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/3 "2006-09-09T18:39:17Z")
Try C:\ruby\bin\rubyw.exe It is the same as ruby.exe but doesn’t open up a command window when invoked. That’s what I have for mine and it works fine. Wes ---
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/4 "2006-09-09T18:40:40Z")
Make sure you have a Rails project selected when you try to start your Webrick server. ---
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/5 "2006-09-09T20:00:48Z")
I just tried again to create a new Rails project after setting rubyw.exe as my Ruby interpreter. The problem I’m having now is in importing work I’ve already done from the pre-RadRails project. I keep getting error messages and the import fails. I really just want to work on the pre-RR project in RR. ---
**Author:** ![studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@studiobl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/studiobl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radrails-on-windows-xp/68137/6 "2006-09-09T20:20:50Z")
Just figured it out–I had to delete a previous project file.