On 27 June 2013 21:54, Matt Hall <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Thank you for your quick reply! > > I am using Windows 7.
Most RoR developers use Linux (eg Ubuntu) or Mac. I believe it is possible to use Windows but you will find it more difficult to get support as so few use it. I advise using Ubuntu either by dual booting the PC or running it in a virtual machine. I usually recommend railstutorial.org for beginners. > Ruby works fine as I've been using cmd prompt and > irb to experiment with Ruby. The tutorial is "Getting Started with > Rails" (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html). I got stuck > at the beginning of 4. Hello, Rails!. > > When I initially tried to install rails, it failed and asked me to > download the DevKit. I followed all the instructions on that correctly. > Then I tried installing rails again and it had a bunch of "could not > convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8" and skipped those files. It wasn't until I > got stuck with this error (see post above) that I installed sqlite3. > When I installed sqlite3, it said something about being added to Gemfile > list (if I remember right). I still don't see it when I do gem list. I suspect the encoding issues are Windows problems. > > I did discover sqlite3 in Gemfile.lock and the text: "# Use sqlite3 as > the database for Active Record > gem 'sqlite3'" in Gemfile in the root directory of the blog the tutorial > asked me to make. I don't quite understand what you are saying above. You should not edit Gemfile.lock, you should edit Gemfile. Then run bundle install in a terminal. That should install the gem and update Gemfile.lock. However, since you are using Windows, I don't know whether there are other issues. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLtZAbLrx-K%3DmXByErR8Dvr2y2i_uX68dCW%3DjBErY43F-w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
