Setting up rails on windows 7 basic

Setting up rails on windows 7 basic

Install Ruby
Install ruby by from http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/76798/rubyinstaller-1.9.3-p392.exe
Ruby 1.93 is the version recommended by ROR for rails.

Install Ruby Gem

RubyGems is a package management framework for Ruby.
Open the command line by pressing window key along with r.  This will open run. Type cmd to open the command prompt.

C:\Users\Toshiba>gem update --system --no-document 
--no-document flag help you in saving time and bandwidht.

More information can be found from http://rubygems.org/pages/download

Finally install Rails by issuing following command.


gem install rails

Download Dev-Kit extract it.

Download it from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
Extract it in a directory
change the directory by using cd command

>ruby dk.rb init
>ruby dk.rb install



Instruction can be found from
https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/development-kit

Or just use rails installer it will do all the above for you.

http://railsinstaller.org/