Rails-new executable for M1 mac?

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Hi everyone, I thought I would give the new Docker local development facility a go. I have an M1 MacBook air. It tells me to download ‘rails-new-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz’ So can anyone tell me where I find this? I can only see the source code on GitHub TIA, Dave

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For anyone else looking for the files, they are revealed when you click the ‘Assets’ link Dave

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I made a guide for my students to get setup:

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Thanks Chris, checking that out. I have access to both Windows and a Mac. On Windows I get this error: docker: invalid spec: \?\C:\rails:\?\C:\rails: too many colons. On Mac, the rails-new command comes back ‘command not found’ Which I think is not a Rails issue. I have researched it, but no solutions I can find are fixing it! I was so hopeful that getting rails going would be easier now :slight_smile: Dave

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How are you running the command on Mac? If you are in a folder foo and rails-new binary is in that folder as well, then you need to run ./rails-new. A bare rails-new will NOT pick up an executable from your current directory, since that is a security problem. It will look the command in your $PATH folders, and when it can’t find it, give you the command not found error. That is why you need to explicitly add the ./ in front to say that you are trying to run a command in the current folder.

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Thanks Ufak, I will try that… Regards, Dave

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It’s here: Releases · rails/rails-new · GitHub