Ruby + Rails + Windows + Installation

Some of you out there may find installing ruby and rails are easy. But not some of us like me.Currently I installed ruby on my TOSHIBA laptop running on Windows XP, and to access the internet I have to use proxy.

Thanks to Michael Wales http://www.michaelwales.com/ruby-on-rails/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows-vista for providing very good step by step tutorial. My part here is just to explain more

For this setup , i’m using

1. ruby186-27_rc2.exe - Ruby installer version 1.8.6-27
2. ruby-1.8.7-i386-mswin32.zip – latest update for ruby. I’ve read http://rubyonrails.org/download , and they recommend to use version 1.8.7. Therefore i will upgrade it from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7

Installation part

1. i downloaded the installer ruby186-27_rc2.exe http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/47082/ruby186-27_rc2.exe
2. Then i download the updates package from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.7-i386-mswin32.zip
3. Double click ruby186-27_rc2.exe and it will proceed to installation, just press next, and it may TOOK sometimes. Then finish installation, by clicking Close button. Your ruby will be installed by default at c:\Ruby
4. After this you will use all commands from c:\Ruby\bin and therefore you need to put Ruby in your PATH environment. By default the installer will put it for you.
5. Now, to confirm that Ruby is installed and your environment variable is setup correctly, open the command line and type ruby –version. It should tell you that you are running version 1.8.6.
6. Now extract ruby-1.8.7-i386-mswin32.zip anywhere. Go to the folder, as for example this is mine.
7. Copy all the content above and paste it in c:\Ruby (your default ruby installation folder), when it says confirm folder replace, just click yes to all.
8. Again to check your version is updated, go to command prompt and
9. Just to be sure, we would like to have the latest version from gem repository. issue command gem update –system We are going to get it from the internet.
10. An error occured due to can’t connect to the server. I’m using internet proxy to connect to the internet . Therefore i have to issue set proxy in the command prompt by issuing set HTTP_proxy=http://<proxy address>:<port number> . To make sure the command prompt can access the internet, issue command proxycfg  -u. Please refer below 
11. Issue back the gem update –system , and here is the results :                                                                                     C:\>gem update –system
    Updating RubyGems
    Updating rubygems-update
    Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.4
    :0:Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for String patterns is deprecated
    Updating RubyGems to 1.3.4
    Installing RubyGems 1.3.4
    Installing RubyGems
    Installing gem executable
    Removing old source_cache files
    Removing old RubyGems RDoc and ri
    Installing rubygems-1.3.4 ri into C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.3.4/r
    i
    Installing rubygems-1.3.4 rdoc into C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.3.4
    /rdoc

    ——————————————————————————

    Oh-no! Unable to find release notes!

    ——————————————————————————

    RubyGems installed the following executables:
    C:/Ruby/bin/gem

    ‘” update –system’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.

12. And now we install rails . Run C:\>gem install rails
13. C:\>gem install rails
    Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
    Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.2
    Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.2
    Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.2
    Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.2
    Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.2
    Successfully installed rails-2.3.2
    7 gems installed
    Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7…
    Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.2…
    Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.3.2…
    Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.3.2…
    Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.3.2…
    Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.3.2…
    Installing ri documentation for rails-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7…
    Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.3.2…
    Installing RDoc documentation for rails-2.3.2…
14. And you are done

~ by pakcikkantin on July 14, 2009.