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For multiple platforms: Windows, Linux and OS X
It exists an installer which includes a most used tools to develop Ruby on Rails applications for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The BitNami RubyStack is totally independent of your system and installs MySQL, SQLite, Apache, Ruby, Rubygems, Subversion, Git and Nginx in a directory. You can install several RubyStack instances in different folders for example to development and production.
To start the MySQL and Apache servers you can find a shortcut on Windows to this or you can execute "./ctlscript.sh start" on Linux and OS X. To can use the Ruby and other commands it is necessary to start the Rubyconsole. It exists a shortcut on Windows to access to the Rubyconsole and you can type "./rubyconsole" on Linux and OS X.
For Windows
The easiest way to have Ruby on Rails running on Windows is to install InstantRails.The latest version of InstantRails at the moment I'm writing this is 1.7 available for direct download from here
Once you download it, you need to unzip it in a directory of choice; make sure the name of the folder does not contain any space breaks.Once unzipped, click on InstantRails.exe ; this will cause InstantRails to detect the directory it's running from and will ask you if you wish to update paths in the config files.Click "yes".
InstantRails comes pre-packed with 2 sample RoR applications : a cookbook application and a photo share one; it also includes both Apache and WEBrick as web servers.
To have access to the menu, just click on the black "I" letter in the left.
An editor with full syntax highlighting features for Ruby is also included in the package - SciTE.To use it, browse to the "ruby" folder, and then to the "scite" folder inside; click on SciTe.exe
This is where RadRails comes in.If you want more than a text editor with syntax highlighting like SciTe for example, you need to install RadRails.
There's nothing special about the installation process( except that you need to install Java first if you don't already have it on your system; go to www.java.com ), so I won't be posting screenshots of that.If you want to make RadRails and InstantRails work together, you need to go to Window -> Preferences -> , then select Ruby -> Installed Interpreters ; click on "add" and type a name for the interpreter you want to use, in our case , you can type something along the lines of "InstantRails" and then browse to the path where ruby.exe is located (folder_where_you_extracted/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby.exe )
After this, you can start creating your first Ruby project from File -> New -> Rails -> Rails Project
If you're having problems, it's good to read the forums, your questions have probably already been aswered.
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