Installation Procedure for Rails Environment on Windows

Its been a long time since i have posted  on  TOS . Today i decided to write an article on Setting up Rails Environment on Windows .  This tutorials helps to understand where your rails environment files are located  as  it helps for  beginners  to understand  the dependencies  softwares and   files required for the developing rails application.

You can also  check this post by my friend on  HowTo: Configure Instant Rails and Aptana IDE

Above link comes handy once you install rails environment . Following are the Steps that are involved to  Install Rails Web framework

Step1 :  Install ruby 1.8.6 with one click installer   you can download the exe file here

File name is  : rubyinstaller-1.8.6-p398-rc2.exe

Step2 : Run the exe and select all the defaults , This will install Ruby  under  C:\ruby
and  it also install RubyGems . Automatically it will  set the path  . If it is not done  set in the
Mycomputer ->Rightclick->Properties->Advanced->Environments  . Set the path ie C:\ruby

Step3 :  From the command prompt type the following command

>  gem update –system

Step4: Install  Rails Framework

> gem install rails  –VERSION=2.3.2

Step5: Download the Mysql Server from here

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads

Step6 : Install Mysql gem from the command prompt

> gem install mysql

Step7: To check rails version which is installed is right version or not  from the command prompt type  the following command

>rails –version

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