Setting up Rails 4.0 on Windows 7 X86/X64

If you are searching for a step by step guide to setup Rails 4.0 on a Windows 7 machine (x86/x64), please follow the steps below one by one : -

Please fetch your Ruby 2.0 (x86 version only) windows installer from here.

Install the downloaded Ruby 2.0 installer, while selecting the following 2 options: -

1. Add Ruby install path to your environment variables
2. Associate with ’.rb’ files

Please open a command prompt and then type : -

1. ruby -v, check it displays the installed ruby version correctly.
2. gem -v, check it displays the installed gem version.
3. gem update –system –no-ri –no-rdoc

Please fetch your Ruby 2.0 devkit (again x86 version only) from here.

Unzip your downloaded devkit zip and cd into the extracted directory and then type : -

1. dk.rb init
2. dk.rb install

Please fetch your SQLite 3 dll from here and copy the contents of the downloaded zip in the ‘bin directory’ under your Ruby installation directory.

Please open a command prompt and type the following commands : -

1. gem install rails –no-ri –no-rdoc
2. gem install sqlite3 –no-ri –no-rdoc

If all of the above commands completes successfully, you are finished with your rails installation. Please start your sample project by typing : -

1. rails new <projectName>
2. cd into ’projectName’ directory
3. type ’rails server’
4. browse to localhost:3000.

Enjoy!!!

Alternatively while installing the various gems using the command prompt you can skip the ’–no-ri –no-rdoc’ appendage if you want to install the ruby doc that comes with your gems.