# please help me in stalling Ruby on Rails...

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/please-help-me-in-stalling-ruby-on-rails/17402>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 24, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/please-help-me-in-stalling-ruby-on-rails/17402 "2007-08-24T20:16:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![cool1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@cool1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/cool1)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/please-help-me-in-stalling-ruby-on-rails/17402/1 "2007-08-24T20:16:26Z")

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Hi, I am new to the platform. I have used manual instaaltion. 1) downloaded ruby latestversion and installed. ruby -v = 1.8.6 2) downloaded .zip package of ruby gems, extracted and run setup. gem - v &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= 0.9.4 3) downloaded all dependencies rake, activesupport,active record, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;actionpack,actionwebservice, actionmailer and installed using - gem install &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;gemname --local command 4) downloaded rails.gem and installed using - gem install rails -- local. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;rails -v = Rails 1.2.3 5) added c:\ruby\bin to path variable. 6) created an app using - rails app 7) changed to that folder and issued - ruby script/server &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;this command gives only the following output &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;c:\ruby\bin\app\\>ruby script/server &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=\> Booting WEBrick server...

thats all and when i try to open a browser with http:\\localhost:3000, it says the page cannot be displayed...

please someone help me.. I am using windows XP with Nortron Internet Security... I am eally desperate of this and kindly someone help me out of this... please...........

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**Author:** ![Gene\_Tani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gene\_Tani](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Gene_Tani)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/please-help-me-in-stalling-ruby-on-rails/17402/2 "2007-08-24T21:36:35Z")

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1. try instant rails: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/)

2. you don't have to say you're desperate, this list's population is very helpful (and sharp).