Showing posts with label Ruby on Rails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruby on Rails. Show all posts

Sunday, November 10, 2013

How to install Ruby on Rails offline in Windows 7 and use WEBrick as web server

When online
  1. Download railsinstaller-2.2.1.exe from http://railsinstaller.org/
  2. Download uglifier-2.2.1.gem from http://rubygems.org/gems/uglifier

When offline (on another computer)
  1. Execute railsinstaller-2.2.1.exe
  2. Open command window
  3. Using the command window, navigate to the directory where uglifier-2.2.1.gem is saved
                                 cd <path where uglifier-2.2.1.gem is saved>
  1. Type the following command:
                                gem install --local uglifier-2.2.1.gem
  1. Create your Rails site with the following command:
                                rails new <name of your site>
  1. Using the command window, navigate to the directory of your site:
                                cd <path of your site>
  1. While inside your site's directory, run the web server (WEBrick):
                                rails server
  1. Open your web browser to view your site: http://localhost:3000/