cannot run rails server command for already created project - ruby-on-rails

I have got an application which was zipped and I unzipped the files and it gave me a folder with all the required structure of a rails application. But when I am going inside the directory and running the rails server command, its not doing anything, but showing me the list of options rails command can do. What would have been the problem?
thanks

Maybe this will help from app folder try:
ruby script/rails server

As explained by Dave Isaacs, Showing the list of options is what the rails command does when it is executed outside the context of an application (i.e., not in the application directories).
Type the full command, including the /script path to the CLI.
script/rails server
instead of
rails server
where script is the path to the rails command that, in a Rails 3 application, lives in the script folder.

I would assume that the application you got was written with rails 2.x. In that case, you have to start it with
script/server

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why rails server is not working on windows 10

I have created the new rails project and trying to run it without doing any changes. I am using the power shell in windows 10. When I am running the rails s command its not starting the server. Please see attached image. I have highlighted the installed ruby version.
The error is there in the output, you do not have a rails app to start a server for, you can create a new app with:
rails new <name-for-your-app>
Follow along this tutorial
to help you get started with rails.
I think this command will work or you are missing something which is required to run rails server
bin/rails server
I've got similar error when I am not in rails project directory. Seems you are out of directory.
Please run those full commands in powershell
cd c:/
rails new testapp
cd testapp
rails s

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I ssh copied a rails app from a staging server because the development repository has been lost. My goal is to create a new development code base using the deployed code as a source. So far I have removed a hidden .bundle folder and replaces several aliases with folders and files. I then ran bundle install. For the database I did a sql dump from staging and used it to build a development database. I think I'm ready to run rails server. But when I try to run rails server in the base directory. It gives me the rails command line help as if I was running rails s in a directory with no app.
I'm not even sure if it is possible to reverse a deploy this way. I've looked at the rails guide on the app initialization process and all the files seem to be in place.
Remember that for Rails to start up, you need bin/rails, bin/bundle, config/boot, etc.
If you restore those files, it should work again.

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I'm new to Ruby on Rails (and programming!) and am running through the guide here...
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
However I am stumped on step 4.1. Creating a webserver as Webrick does not seem to run at all. Here is the error message that I see...
F:/Documents/Google Drive/Development/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4
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/Documents/Google Drive/Development/Ruby21/bin/ruby.exe" (Errno::ENOENT)
The Ruby.exe does indeed exist in this location, all previous steps have been fine up until now. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Also, did you copy the command from the guide verbatim? If you're running windows and using a cmd prompt, you don't need to include the "bin/" part of that command. Simply enter "rails server" or "rails s" for short to start the server.

Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first

I'm getting this error:
Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first
But I'm not in a rails directory, I'm on the desktop. There's no .bundle files anywhere to be found. Any ideas?
cd bin/
rm -rf rails
This fixed my problem. I was also getting the same error message
"Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first.
Type 'rails' for help."
I was struggling with this over the weekend, but after lots of prodding and poking got it to work.
The problem for me was that Aptana (I believe) created a second rails script in my local bin directory (~/bin) which was called instead of the system script. This local version was older than /usr/local/bin/rails. After moving aside ~/bin/rails, "rails new fred" worked as expected.
Try creating a new folder or rails app in root folder, under ~/
I was having the same problem this morning and that's because rails was already been there while i was creating my application.
To remove the error just go to bin folder of your application and remove the rails folder, and try to create new rails application in your planned folder using rails new app_name.

Cannot start project in rails

I'm pretty new to Rails.
I created a new Rails app: rails new app_name, and ran rails server etc.
But, once I shut down and reopened my machine, I can run neither rails server nor rails console. It says to use the rails new app_name command again, but I just want to restart where I left off the day before.
Any advice is very much appreciated.
I'm guessing your current working directory of your command line is not in your project directory which you created yesterday.
cd some_path/to_my/rails_project
rails server
You must be in the directory that represents your project to do things like launch the server. Otherwise, how does it know what project to launch a server for?
Just make sure you are in the directory of the rails app you created. Sounds like you aren't.

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