To create a new rails project on a windows machine, you need to take the following steps:
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2. create a folder that will house all your rails project
PS C:\> mkdir RailsProjects
Directory: C:\
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 13/12/2014 15:57 RailsProjects
PS C:\>
3. cd into that directory
PS C:\> cd .\RailsProjects PS C:\RailsProjects>
4. Next we have to set up this folder as our main folder that will house all our rails:
PS C:\RailsProjects> gem install rails Successfully installed rails-4.1.8 Parsing documentation for rails-4.1.8 Done installing documentation for rails after 2 seconds 1 gem installed PS C:\RailsProjects> gem install rails
5. Now run the following:
Now run:
rails new {rails-project-name}
For, example, here I am creating a rails project called “My-First-Rails-Project”:
PS C:\RailsProjects> rails new My-First-Rails-Project
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create
create README.rdoc
create Rakefile
create config.ru
create .gitignore
create Gemfile
create app
create app/assets/javascripts/application.js
create app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
create app/controllers/application_controller.rb
create app/helpers/application_helper.rb
create app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
create app/assets/images/.keep
create app/mailers/.keep
create app/models/.keep
create app/controllers/concerns/.keep
create app/models/concerns/.keep
create bin
create bin/bundle
create bin/rails
create bin/rake
create config
create config/routes.rb
create config/application.rb
create config/environment.rb
create config/secrets.yml
create config/environments
create config/environments/development.rb
create config/environments/production.rb
create config/environments/test.rb
create config/initializers
create config/initializers/assets.rb
create config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb
create config/initializers/cookies_serializer.rb
create config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb
create config/initializers/inflections.rb
create config/initializers/mime_types.rb
create config/initializers/session_store.rb
create config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb
create config/locales
create config/locales/en.yml
create config/boot.rb
create config/database.yml
create db
create db/seeds.rb
create lib
create lib/tasks
create lib/tasks/.keep
create lib/assets
create lib/assets/.keep
create log
create log/.keep
create public
create public/404.html
create public/422.html
create public/500.html
create public/favicon.ico
create public/robots.txt
create test/fixtures
create test/fixtures/.keep
create test/controllers
create test/controllers/.keep
create test/mailers
create test/mailers/.keep
create test/models
create test/models/.keep
create test/helpers
create test/helpers/.keep
create test/integration
create test/integration/.keep
create test/test_helper.rb
create tmp/cache
create tmp/cache/assets
create vendor/assets/javascripts
create vendor/assets/javascripts/.keep
create vendor/assets/stylesheets
create vendor/assets/stylesheets/.keep
run bundle install
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Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..........
Resolving dependencies...
Using rake 10.4.2
Using i18n 0.6.11
Using json 1.8.1
Using minitest 5.5.0
Using thread_safe 0.3.4
Using tzinfo 1.2.2
Using activesupport 4.1.8
Using builder 3.2.2
Using erubis 2.7.0
Using actionview 4.1.8
Using rack 1.5.2
Using rack-test 0.6.2
Using actionpack 4.1.8
Using mime-types 2.4.3
Using mail 2.6.3
Using actionmailer 4.1.8
Using activemodel 4.1.8
Using arel 5.0.1.20140414130214
Using activerecord 4.1.8
Using bundler 1.7.7
Using coffee-script-source 1.8.0
Using execjs 2.2.2
Using coffee-script 2.3.0
Using thor 0.19.1
Using railties 4.1.8
Using coffee-rails 4.0.1
Using hike 1.2.3
Using multi_json 1.10.1
Using jbuilder 2.2.5
Using jquery-rails 3.1.2
Using tilt 1.4.1
Using sprockets 2.12.3
Using sprockets-rails 2.2.2
Using rails 4.1.8
Using rdoc 4.2.0
Using sass 3.2.19
Using sass-rails 4.0.5
Using sdoc 0.4.1
Using sqlite3 1.3.10
Using turbolinks 2.5.3
Using tzinfo-data 1.2014.10
Using uglifier 2.6.0
Your bundle is complete!
Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
PS C:\RailsProjects>
This creates the folder for the rails project, of the same name:
PS C:\RailsProjects> ls
Directory: C:\RailsProjects
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 13/12/2014 17:18 My-First-Rails-Project
PS C:\RailsProjects>
At this point the rails project has now been created and is housed inside this folder.
6. Now let’s check the contents of the new rails project folder. First cd into it, then view it’s contents:
PS C:\RailsProjects>
PS C:\RailsProjects> cd .\My-First-Rails-Project
PS C:\RailsProjects\My-First-Rails-Project> ls
Directory: C:\RailsProjects\My-First-Rails-Project
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 app
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 bin
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 config
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 db
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 lib
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 log
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 public
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 test
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 tmp
d---- 13/12/2014 17:17 vendor
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:17 466 .gitignore
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:17 154 config.ru
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:17 1288 Gemfile
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:18 2836 Gemfile.lock
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:17 249 Rakefile
-a--- 13/12/2014 17:17 478 README.rdoc
PS C:\RailsProjects\My-First-Rails-Project>
You should then see contents similar to this.
7. While in this folder, we can now check whether the rails project is set up correctly by seeing if we can start up the rails web server, which is done like this:
PS C:\RailsProjects\My-First-Rails-Project> rails server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 4.1.8 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Run `rails server -h` for more startup options => Notice: server is listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0). Consider using 127.0.0.1 (--binding option) => Ctrl-C to shutdown server [2014-12-13 17:30:35] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2014-12-13 17:30:35] INFO ruby 2.1.5 (2014-11-13) [i386-mingw32] [2014-12-13 17:30:35] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=8216 port=3000 Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-12-13 17:30:36 +0000 Processing by Rails::WelcomeController#index as HTML Rendered C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.8/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb (13.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 122ms (Views: 70.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms) Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-12-13 17:31:12 +0000 Processing by Rails::WelcomeController#index as HTML Rendered C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.8/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb (0.0ms) Completed 200 OK in 10ms (Views: 9.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)
Note, at this point, you can’t enter any new commands into the terminal while the rails web-server is running.
9. Now open up a web browser, and go to:
http://localhost:3000
10. If you see this page, then it means that you have successfully set up a blank rails project, which you can now start using to build your project.
11. You can now go ahead and stop the rail server by typing ctrl+c in the terminal. This will return you back to the command prompt.