在Windows 7中安装Ruby on Rails

Question

I saw some ruby tutorials today and like to learn it. The problem is that i'm stuck with the installation process! :(

I can't get a clear picture on how to install RoR. For example, to write php code i installed wamp and straight away started writing php scripts. And i'm using Dreamweaver CS4 as an IDE.

Can anyone enlighten me :

1) the process of installing RoR?

2) an IDE for RoR

3) What are gems? are they modules?

thanks :)

Answer 1

UPDATE: (2011-11-05)

RubyInstaller is now mature and IS the preferred way to do the install: http://rubyinstaller.org/

SQLite can be installed normally too.

Original post: (2010-01-25)

The best way to start is using the one-click installer. I advise using the older installer ( http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/47082/ruby186-27_rc2.exe ) instead of the new RubyInstaller, because the latter is still a bit immature. While installing select rubygems support and the add ruby to the PATH option, to ease access to ruby binaries.

After installing (takes a while), fire a console, and install rails (and a database connector, like sqlite3) using the commands

gem install rails
gem install sqlite3-ruby –version=1.2.3

(the 1.2.3 version of the sqlite3 gem will work on windows correctly)

As you have guessed correctly gems are modules to ruby, and ruby on rails is one of these modules.

Now you have installed both ruby and rails, fire up a console, and type

rails applicationname

to create your first rails application. From here on read the tutorials and documentations.

Rails doesn't really need an IDE for development, you can use any decent text editor, but there are rails plugins for IDEs like eclipse, and editors like vim or emacs.

Answer 2

回答IDE部分：除了一个好的纯文本编辑器（已经建议使用vim和emacs）之外，我发现netbeans IDE工作得非常好，特别是在Windows上。

Answer 3

This page works fine and installs on Windows recent releases (mid-2011) of the entire toolset:

1. Ruby 1.9.2-p290,
2. Rails 3.1, Git 1.7.6,
3. Sqlite 3.7.3.

Ruby Eclipse support is here

Configure to use it in Window/Preferences/Ruby/Interpreters/Add (RailsInstaller Windows default is C:\\RailsInstaller\\Ruby1.9.2\\bin\\ruby.exe)

1. Create File/New/Project/Ruby/Ruby Project and

2. add File/New/Empty Ruby Script.

3. type puts "Hello, Ruby" and

4. click Run and select Ruby Script.

Read the Console and enjoy.