Ruby On Rails Install on Win 7 32 bit error

Rails
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I am a newbie on Ruby on Rails. When trying to install on Win 7 32 bit
PC,
after executing gem install rails, got the following errors:

9 gems installed
error: while generating documentation for actionpack-4.1.4
… MESSAGE: Invalid argument -
./ActionDispatch/Routing/Mapper/Scoping/:
… RDOC args: --ri --op
C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/doc/act
ionpack-4.1.4/ri lib --title actionpack-4.1.4 Documentation --quiet

(Ruby version: 1.9.3p545 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
SQLite version: 3.8.4.3 2014-04-03 16:53:12

Can someone please help?

Thanks,
rubynewbie

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On 27 July 2014 04:01, rubynewbie [email protected] wrote:

I am a newbie on Ruby on Rails. When trying to install on Win 7 32 bit PC,
after executing gem install rails, got the following errors:

I strongly recommend not using Windows for rails development, use a
linux distribution (eg Ubuntu) or Mac. If, however, you have
absolutely no choice then I believe that railsinstaller.org is the way
to go.

Colin

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On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:01 PM, rubynewbie [email protected] wrote:

(Ruby version: 1.9.3p545 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
SQLite version: 3.8.4.3 2014-04-03 16:53:12

Can someone please help?

Rubynewbie, I’m not familiar with installing on windows, but I think
your
installation might still be okay. The documentation generation step is
where things failed, but that happens after all the code is installed.
All
the documentation is online, so you don’t especially need to have it on
your computer (although it is nice to have).

Try creating a rails application following the instructions and see if
it
still works. If it doesn’t, then you could seek more direct help at the
places RailsInstaller suggests:

Google G.: http://groups.google.com/group/railsinstaller
IRC: Kiwi IRC

Also check the issues at github:

Have a look at this page as well:
Windows - Installfest – it talks about
setting
up more things in your development environment that you may want.

Best of luck!

Tamara

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On Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:01:40 AM UTC+2, rubynewbie wrote:

(Ruby version: 1.9.3p545 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
SQLite version: 3.8.4.3 2014-04-03 16:53:12

Can someone please help?

Thanks,
rubynewbie

Here are the steps to install the Rails environment on a Windows box:

  • DO NOT use the rails Installer !
  • download and install Ruby with RubyInstaller as explained
    here:http://rubyinstaller.org/
  • check the installed Ruby version by running ruby -v in your command
    prompt( run Start-Run-cmd)
  • download and install DevKit as explained
    at http://rubyinstaller.org/add-ons/devkit/ to enable the build of
    C-based
    extension gems
  • check the installation of DevKit as explained
    here:
    Development Kit · oneclick/rubyinstaller Wiki · GitHub
  • install rails and related gems by running in your terminal (command
    prompt) gem install rails. This will take some time.
  • finally check the installed Rails version by running rails -v in
    your
    terminal.

That’s as easy as it is.
If you have some proxy related issues, come back or (better) post it to
another thread.
Hope this helps.

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On 28 July 2014 09:30, Javix [email protected] wrote:

…
Here are the steps to install the Rails environment on a Windows box:

  • DO NOT use the rails Installer !

An explanation of why not would be useful. I have heard others say it
is the way to go.

Colin

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It was just a personal approach, i.e. I’d prefer to install the things
knowing exactly what happens and and when.
Rails Installer seems to me (always personal) as a kind of ‘black box’.
More of that, it seems to be the preferred way to install via
RubyInstaller
(the easiest way), see http://rubyinstaller.org/.

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i dont mean to be rude,

but use Vagrant! for petes sake. (-:

trust me, i have the same config (win7 32bit)

later on this year, when you give up trying to run rails nAtively on
windows, i hope you rememer me, as the guy on the mailing list who
suggested vagrant.