first impressions from a newbie on setting up ruby on rails

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After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the download page http://www.rubyonrails.org/down, I decided to go for instant rails. The reasons being:

1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange error message and there wasn't anyplace to go for quick answers.

2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application cd path/to/your/new/application ruby script/server

Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or just any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal command or is there something called a script/server that I am supposed to enter?

I have a masters' in Computer Science and lots of experience with various languages. If I'm finding this page confusing, chances are others will as well.

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After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the download page Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern., I decided to go for instant rails. The reasons being:

1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange error message and there wasn't anyplace to go for quick answers.

You could start by saying what the error was :slight_smile:

2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application cd path/to/your/new/application ruby script/server

Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or just any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal command or is there something called a script/server that I am supposed to enter?

path/to/your/new/application does just mean 'wherever you want your application to be' ruby script/server will run the script that spawns a server

Fred

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Michael Phoenix wrote:

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1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange error message and there wasn't anyplace to go for quick answers.

...and what were those strange errors?

2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application cd path/to/your/new/application ruby script/server

Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or just any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal command or is there something called a script/server that I am supposed to enter?

1) Any path you choose - it's just a location for rails to create its directory structure and file it with files

2) There is a server file in the script directory (in the rails framework created above). "script/server" is shorthand for this.