# Ruby On Rails with Webrick on a Vista System **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 10, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-with-webrick-on-a-vista-system/165215 "2009-04-10T09:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SnLStark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-with-webrick-on-a-vista-system/165215/1 "2009-04-10T09:28:23Z")
Does this work. I am trying to learn ROR on my home system (Vista) using the Agile Web D. with Rails and can not get past the first program. I need some help I am currently learning Ruby on Rails and found a great book – Agile Web D. With Rails. It has many good examples and does an excellence job of presenting the information. The problem that I am having is when I attempt to create and run the programs on my Vista system using WEBrick. After starting WEBrick I can enter ‘[//localhost:3000](https://localhost:3000)’ and the Welcome Aboard screen. But from there it goes down hill. Continuing with the example I add the controllers and views for ‘Say’ with a hello method as it instructs and attempt to load them. But I keep getting the following message: “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly”. Who are ‘we’ and how are they doing to help me with this problem. Can any of you help me? The book gives not suggestions nor where to go for help. I would appreciate any guidance that any one can give me. ---
**Author:** ![SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SnLStark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-with-webrick-on-a-vista-system/165215/2 "2009-04-10T19:54:45Z")
What database are you using, the default sqlite3? Try looking in log/ in the development log file. What error message are you getting recorded there? Cheers– Charles ---
**Author:** ![SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SnLStark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-with-webrick-on-a-vista-system/165215/3 "2009-04-14T14:53:20Z")
Hi, It’s very simple. In Rails 2.2.2, if there is any problem with configuration, it was clearly notify in the browser. For an example, if you didn’t have a proper database, or password for access database and so on. But from Rails 2.3 this feature is missing. It’s just showing the message “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly”. I don’t know why. Rails team should consider this. First you need to check the database.yml file under the config folder. By reading the first commented line you can identify what is the database that you are using. Most probably it should be SQLite3, if you didn’t specify otherwise. If so, you won’t require the username and the password for the database. You need to install some SQLite3 libraries using gem package manager. If you are using “Instant Rails” - single click installer then the libraries already with in the package. If your database.yml file configuration shows that you have set up a MySQL database, then you need to specify the proper username and password. Then before you run the application you need to create the database. You can use the rake utility for that. rake db:create Then run the application. If you still have problems. Let me know. I’ll help. According to my point of view Windows in not a suitable and enjoyable development environment for Rails. Try R. with Ubunutu or any other Linux distribution. If you need a guild to install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu you can read my latest blog post here. [http://mohamedaslam.com/](http://mohamedaslam.com/) Finally, please check the version of the book that you are learning. Of course, it’s a perfect book. But 1st and 2nd versions are now outdated. You can’t use many functions described in those edition. Most of them are now deprecated. Latest 3rd edition is now released. Regards, Mohamed A. ---
**Author:** ![SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SnLStark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SnLStark)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-with-webrick-on-a-vista-system/165215/4 "2009-11-19T22:09:37Z")
Following Mohamed’s recommendations as a guideline, I went and did a “sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby” and this seemed to stop any errors. (I’m also using the Agile Rails book, wish the authors had thought to include that tidbit.) Thanks Mohamed for the headsup for us. Oh, I’m on Ubuntu 9.10 and followed the Hackido blog instructions for setting up RoR on Ubuntu 9.10. Mohamed A. wrote: > Hi, It’s very simple. > > In Rails 2.2.2, if there is any problem with configuration, it was > clearly notify in the browser. For an example, > if you didn’t have a proper database, or password for access database > and so on. But from Rails 2.3 this feature > is missing. It’s just showing the message �We’re sorry, but something > went > wrong. We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at > it shortly�. I don’t know why. Rails team should consider this. > > First you need to check the database.yml file under the config folder. > By reading the first commented line you can > identify what is the database that you are using. Most probably it > should be SQLite3, if you didn’t specify otherwise. > If so, you won’t require the username and the password for the > database. You need to install some SQLite3 libraries using > gem package manager. > > If you are using “Instant Rails” - single click installer then the > libraries already with in the package. > > If your database.yml file configuration shows that you have set up a > MySQL database, then you need to specify the proper > username and password. Then before you run the application you need to > create the database. You can use the rake utility for that. > > rake db:create > > Then run the application. If you still have problems. Let me know. > I’ll help. According to my point of view Windows in not a suitable > and enjoyable development environment for Rails. Try R. with > Ubunutu or any other Linux distribution. If you need a guild to > install > Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu you can read my latest blog post here. > > [http://mohamedaslam.com/](http://mohamedaslam.com/) > > Finally, please check the version of the book that you are learning. > Of course, it’s a perfect book. But 1st and 2nd versions are now > outdated. > You can’t use many functions described in those edition. Most of them > are now deprecated. Latest 3rd edition is now released. > > Regards, > Mohamed A.