Thanks for the advice guys. 

Problem is that im sittign on a very good laptop. Do I really need to buy a 
mac or unix to develop in ROR???  Is it that much different on Windows???

Nat

On Friday, 18 October 2013 08:29:59 UTC, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 17 October 2013 13:46, Natmanu <nat...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > If im in the wrong place please redirect me: 
> > 
> > I have decided that i'm goignt o jump inand learn rails the hard way. I 
> know 
> > I have to go through the initial learnign curve.  One of them is to know 
> > where to go when you get stuck..  so here goes... 
> > 
> > I'm installing on Windows 7. using guide: 
>
> Well you certainly are going about it the hard way.  Rails is 
> generatlly easier on Linux (eg Ubuntu) or Mac.  In particular you will 
> find it easier to get help as most developers use Linux or Mac. 
>
> > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html 
>
> Rather than starting there I suggest a tutorial such as 
> railstutorial.org (which is free to use online).  That will guide you 
> through the steps in rather more detail than the guide, I believe. 
>
> > 
> > Ruby version:1.9.3p392 
> > Rails version:3.2.13 
> > 
> > the note on the instructions at: 
> > 4.3 Setting the Application Home Page 
> > says: 
> > 
> > root to: "welcome#index" 
> > 
> > I've un-commented it the routes.rb and saves the file. But now I can not 
> > open the page. 
> > 
> > I get  error:  Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to localhost:3000 
> > 
> > Do i need to reboot routes.rb or server or something? It does not seem 
> to 
> > obey the command in routes.rb or the path is wrong! I've check the 
> > directories and the file is there. 
>
> You need to restart the server after changing the routes.rb.  You did 
> not mention that you have started the server, but I presume you have. 
> (rails server is the command). 
>
> Colin 
>

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