Installing Ruby on Rails 3 on Windows

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This post helps you Installing ruby on rails 3, on windows platform. So without wasting your time, here we go.

1. Download the latest stable release of ruby. ( In our case we are taking Ruby 1.9.3 & Rails 3 )
2. Install it like any other program you do.
3. Open command prompt & navigate to ruby > in directory & run following command to check version
   > ruby –version
   it should output something like this
   ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]Now run following to update ruby & then installing gemcutter
   > gem update –system
   > gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org

   Now time to install Rails. Run following command.
   > gem install rails
   after installation, it will show a message ‘Successfully installed rails-3.0 ‘

   you can check the rails version by following command
   > rails –v

   Now, lets create your first application after that we can test it in browser. To create a new application run this command.
   > rails new yourappname
   this will create all directories needed by your application & will setup all configuration files as well. Under bin directory (where you are right now), you can see a new folder with yourappname

   Now, navigate to that app folder just created and run following command.
   > bundle install

   Now the final step. Starting the rails server
   > rails server
   when you run this command. It will show some output like this.
   => Booting WEBrick
   => Rails 3.0.10 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
   => Call with -d to detach
   => Ctrl-C to shutdown server
   [2011-08-29 08:56:17] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
   [2011-08-29 08:56:17] INFO ruby 1.9.2 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]
   [2011-08-29 08:56:17] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4000 port=3000

   Now to test your server running, open this in your browser.
   http://localhost:3000/