Getting the Ruby unto Rails

Setting Up Rails Development Environment On Windows OS.

To get your rails environment properly set up and working, please do well to follow the steps below
carefully:

1. Download and install Ruby. 

     -->  Click to download Ruby.
     -->  Take note of the Ruby bit you downloaded (x64 or x86), because this will help you                               know  the version of development kit (devKit) to install, so as to avoid compatibility issues. 
     --> Ensure you do the typical (full) installations ( Check the 3 boxes that you will see during
          the installations because they are what helps the devKit and other rails components fit in well).

2. Download and install Rubygem (a package management framework for Ruby).  

       -->  Click to download Rubygem.
       --> After downloading Rubygem, move it to a permanent location(e.g your "C:\"  before you 
             extract it.
      --> then on the extracted folder, which should bear the name rubygem-"version number"
            e.g rubygem-2.4.1, open the command prompt window i.e. hold the shift key and right click 
            and select "open command window here"
      --> On the Command window type  ruby setup.rb and press enter, then go to your system
            path and add the ruby executable. (be very careful while doing this). 
            To get to your path (windows key + e -> right click on my computer -> select  properties
            -> select Advanced system settings -> select Environment Variables -> select path -> 
            click on  Edit ... , and then add the Ruby path to it. The Ruby path should look like 
           C:\Ruby200-x64\bin, and your path should look like 
               
                          
          At this point, the ruby setup is complete.

3. Installing Rails.

     -> To install Rails is actually very simple:
          --> Open the Command Prompt and type :    gem install rails 
               and this does the installations for you.

4. Finally, We install the DevKit (Development Kit)

     --> Click to download Ruby DevKit    
           -->Ensure that the bit of DevKit you download matches the bit of ruby installed.
                e.g x64 bit ruby for x64 bit devkit
    --> After you download, move the self extracting file you downloaded to a permanent
         location preferably inside a directory inside your Ruby installation directory; For instance,   
         you can have something like this  "C:\Ruby200-x64\devkit" (the subdirectory devkit was a 
        created,was not originally inside the Ruby ) ,  then extract the file there, and open the command 
        window on that directory by (hold the shift key and right click and select "open command 
        window here"), then type the following commands:
                                                                                     --> ruby dk.rb init  
                                                                                           press enter,  then 
                                                                                     --> ruby dk.rb review
                                      press enter  
 N|B: At this point if it tells you to edit the config file mostly because the devkit could not register   
  the path to where ruby was installed on your system, just go to the  config file and follow the    
  instructions, which is commonly to add the path to where ruby was installed e.g  - C:\Ruby200-x64;
  Config file is located in the directory where devkit was extracted.
   
Finally, type the last command on the command prompt to complete the installations
                                                                                       --> ruby dk.rb install
                                    press enter 
 
       
To Confirm that our installation was perfect, we will create an application on rails:

  1. Create application with the command --> rails new application_name 
  N.B: This will be done on command line
  e.g.   --> rails new my_app

  2.Change to application directory, using 
   --> cd my_app

 3. Start the webserver , using 
        --> rail runserver

If on running the runserver , you get any error about "tzine-data  NoTimeSource", which is peculiar to those using x64 bit, just go to your app directory, in this case "my_app", you will find a file named Gemfile, open it in your editor, and edit the line(always the last line) that contains gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin], 
by removing the platform, and having something like this:
gem 'tzinfo-data'; 

then on command window type --> bundle update 
and then --> rail runserver

Hopefully, i believe the server will run without errors.

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