Im new to github.. I have register my name there, I'm not a rails developer, but i want to learn Ruby on Rails.
Have someone any idea about its basic tutorials for creating Ruby on Rails applications, execute them etc
Thanks in advance
GitHub isn't a web host, it's a version control repository. You put your source code there to share with others (either the general public, for open source stuff, or members of your team).
For getting going with Rails, I'd suggest Heroku. It uses git as the way to get your app running on their servers, which is ridiculously simple. It's also free to get going, you only need to pay if your web traffic gets too big or if you want to use advanced features.
When I was learning Rails, the two sources that helped the most were the Pragmatic Programmers book Agile Web Development with Rails book and Ryan Bates' excellent Railscasts site.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html will help you i think.You can start reading from here.
If you want to run a project from git the you have to do the following
->git clone git#github.com:Project/project.git [A public project of github]
->cd project
->bundle install
->rake db:migrate
->rails server
but before this you have to set up your ruby on rails environment.Rubymine is one of the best IDE for ROR development.
Best of Luck !!!!
Check out some tutorials from here - http://www.rubyonrailstutorials.com/
Almost all of them include describing work with git and github.
Well, first of all you should check the documentation from the framework's page at http://rubyonrails.org
A quick guide to run the server locally:
For rails application prior to version 3.0 you should run:
ruby script/server
For newer applications you should run:
rails server
But there are probably a lot of other topics to review first (depending on the application):
Dependency installation
Database configuration
Custom initializers
Etc...
If the application doesn't have a decent Readme file or any other documentation you should probably need to ask the application author for some help.
Hope that help, don't give up, there are a lot of new things to learn but I think the effort worth it. Good luck.
After cloning
1.install rbenv or rvm for managing and installing ruby
In terminal(your project root)
2. sudo gem install bundler
3. bundle install
3. rails s
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I have a complete ruby project on my system that I downloaded from github.com and I want to run it on my Windows machine.
I have already installed Ruby and Rails on my system, but I have no idea how to run this project. The directory of this project is something like:
C:\Users\{username}\Desktop\BitcoinFundi\BitcoinFundi
How would I run this project on my system?
To run your Ruby on Rails application, use the following command:
rails server
This will start the server and you will be able to access the application in your browser at http://localhost:3000. Port 3000 is default and you can change it in the application settings.
To run a Ruby script use:
ruby name_of_script.rb
You should check out various resources and tutorials on getting started with rails.
As you say in your comment this is your first experience with Ruby on Rails, I think you should follow through chapter 1 and 2 (at least) of Ruby on Rails Tutorial. After that you should have a better understanding of how you start up a rails app and configure the DB. You also need a bunch of other libraries and software such as mysql from the sounds of it.
You should also read Getting Started with Rails. Section 4 covers how to start the default rails server.
Here is a guide on setting up a Rails environment for Windows, which is one of many guides, that shows you some of the needed steps to get a fully working environment.
pretty new to all this and ran into a real ditch. I had ruby 2.0.0p353 running with rails 4.1+, everything was setup with homebrew, xcode, git,heroku etc.... I'm on OSX 10.9.4
then came time to try out S3 and install the aws-sdk gem. I was unable to install the nokogiri gem after scouring stackoverflow for days to no avail. I then came across this article online that suggested to update rails and ruby versions. In my attempt to upgrade my ruby version to the latest, I followed the instructions given here as follows:
in terminal and in my app folder:
/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"
source ~/.bash_profile
gem update --system
..I subsequently tried bundle update / installs as well... and receive this error shown on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/Q64j0LwD
Now, things are completely messed up as I am unable to even run a rails server. Getting this error Could not find pg-0.17.1 in any of the sources
I currently have Ruby 2.1.2p95 installed. I don't know what else is installed during this trial and error probably several versions of many things unfortunately. Any advice would be great.
: Could not find pg-0.17.1 in any of the sources
Try postgresapp and use documentation for install and configure postgresql server.
The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac
You're clearly new to rails coding. I made a lot of mistakes when I started. I still make a lot of mistakes, but they're more complex mistakes now, mostly ;)
I'd start by using "RailsInstaller". Excellent way to get all the pieces... except Postgres. As suggested by someone with a name consisting of a lot of non-ASCII characters, PostgresApp is incredibly useful to get a more up to date Postgres without messing with compiling stuff outside the project.
You probably should use "rvm" or "rbenv" to manage your rubies. I've tried both, and I favour rvm. rbenv is recommended, but I spent an awkward half day trying to disentangle the consequence of typing "bundle exec rails new app", before I decided to go back to rvm. rvm works more naturally for me, at the expense of creating gemsets for each project. Which, personally, I like. I want to isolate each thing I add to an OS, so I can work on multiple projects with less contamination, and without having to create a VM for each project.
Contamination is, I think the problem with Nokogiri. Everyone tells you to go install brew or Macports or build it all for yourself from scratch. When you do, you get lots of stuff installed. And that stuff affects the compilation process. I'm about 80% certain that I can't compile Nokogiri with system libraries because other projects have dropped include files that rename iconv_open to libiconv_open - which isn't in the native library. I have Nokogiri compiling now, but only as a result of using GNU iconv, and using the arcane "bundle config" to set up a build time dependency for nokogiri alone to use the /opt/local/include version of iconv. That was time consuming.
So, some advice that I haven't taken for myself yet. Clean out the brew/ports stuff. I suspect that you can run anything you need to, in locally installed project directories, rather than interfering with the OS. Unless you really need something that doesn't ship with a Mac, like an up to date ruby (solved by rbenv/rvm)
Look into Heroku. Low cost way to get started with publishing your small apps.
Make sure you have GitHub and BitBucket accounts. Personally I contribute to projects on GitHub, but my private stuff is on BitBucket - pricing models.
Git looks mad. But git is wonderful. Learn to branch. Lots. Learn to merge. Learn to tag, and learn how to push and pull from an upstream repo. These words may mean nothing to you now, but they will save your sanity. You'll use git to push your projects to Heroku. Just freaking amazing. Learn how to have a staging branch and a live branch, and push each to a different Heroku instance, so you can be testing user acceptance on a public facing server, without contaminating dev or live versions. Git/Heroku. Joyful.
Watch out for several things that bit me... Ruby gets lots of patches. They are meaningful. I spent days trying to work out why a piece of ruby code failed, only to discover it worked in a different patch level. Watch for the updates and apply them - except for 'bundle update'. Don't do 'bundle update' until you are old and wise.
Gem versions - that also bit me. Got a project that worked. Then it didn't, with no code changes at all... except that I'd updated my gems. A later version of a gem upset the code. So...
Bundler is your other friend. Lock down the versions of gems that you need for a project. Don't use "bundle update" unless you are prepared for strange things to happen. Make nice Gemfiles.
You probably need to get to grips with TDD and preferably BDD.
So next thing you need is to get the Qt library installed, and use "gem 'capybara-webkit'" and Cucumber with Rspec-Rails to help you write tests that the browser will execute. Butt saver central, if you start changing gem versions. At least you know when the tests stopped working, and can use git to revert to a known working chunk. More importantly, it saves, eventually, a lot of tedious checking around when something unexpectedly stops working.
Also... make sure that your development group of gems (in Gemfile) includes "better_errors" and "binding_of_caller". A REPL in the browser pane when your code fails, is wonderful.
If you want to just throw some stuff together, e.g. office admin projects that you don't want to spend a load of time refining the UI on, but just build something that works. Try 'hobo'. I find it very useful for rapidly building something. Faster to code it than to spec it or draw it. Seriously. And it is all over-rideable, though I've never turned any Hobo code into something for high scaled usage...
Welcome to the amazing world of developing in Rails, on a Mac. It's a rapidly evolving hoot. Hope that helps. :)
I'm not a RoR programmer myself, but a good client of ours has sent a project their previous web team built and I need to get it up and running on their server.
The server uses cPanel and Ruby on Rails is already installed. I've created a project via the cPanel wizard and located the file tree via SSH.
Using SSH, I've tried to replace this file tree with the project I've been sent, but when I hit 'run' in cPanel, the application doesn't actually start (although the success message would indicate that it has).
If I leave the original cPanel-created application in place, I can run/stop no problem and the web interface at :12001 opens up just fine.
I assume there are either conflicts with RoR versions that I need to resolve, or there's simply more to it than just replacing the file tree? Again I'm not a RoR programmer and I'm having a hard time finding a migration guide that tells me anything other than "set up in cPanel and replace the files".
I'd very much appreciate either some genuinely useful links to RoR application setup/migration guides (ideally for cPanel) or a step-by-step answer please.
First, forget Cpanel for now. Try in one environment where you can control everything.
Try to know better the rails version used and the associated gem19s or plugin if from 2.x days. The ruby version is important too, only then you can start defining a plan.
I'm afraid you won't get a step-by-step answer, but I'm sure you can be pointed in the right direction by providing the requested information.
Simple questions: Do you have a Gemfile file at the top at your project? Do you have any plugins (stuff in vendor/plugins)?
Update:
With the Gemfile provided here are the required steps:
Install ruby (if you haven't install it using rvm. The version 1.9.3-x should be the safest.
Install rubygems
Install bundler
Go the project dir and run bundle install
run rake db:migrate (assure you have the database setup acording to config/database.yml
run rails s and check the logs and see if the server is up.
If after installing bundler, you don't have the bundle command in your path, you need to add this your .bash_profile:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
export PATH
I'm still new to ruby and i'm in the process to learn it, i'm actually using Xampp for php on windows, but i'm stuck at finding a complete package to install a RoR server just like Xampp without any manual work.
Is there any tool out there?
You can try Rails Installer
One of your choices is to use built in mongrel/webrick server which comes with each rails app. Just type $ rails s at the console and you're good to go. Otherwise I don't think it's particularly useful to deploy an app each time you change something.
I've tried downloading the Rails package and installing it on Windows, but have no idea to make it work.
I have had some experience with this commbination:
PHP 4.x + 5.x (Windows)
LIGHTTPD (Windows)
Connecting to a Firebird Database (Windows)
Can anybody enlighten me?
I've gotten Rails up and running on Windows just following the instructions on the RoR website. To paraphrase:
Download Ruby Windows installer from here. I recommend this one.
Execute the .exe [ruby186-26.exe]
Verify your Windows environment variables now includes C:\ruby\bin in the PATH variable. (My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables). If it's not there, add it.
Download Ruby Gems from here.
Extract the zip [rubygems-1.3.0.zip] to a temporary directory.
Open a command window and cd to the temp directory.
Type ruby setup.rb in the command window and hit enter.
After that from the command window type gem install rails
Boom! You have rails on windows.
I've heard good things about Instant Rails I've avoided it though. I highly recommend RadRails for Eclipse. I do all my RoR development in Windows using RadRails to connect to a MySQL database.
Either try Instant Rails, which hasn't been updated in a while.
Or try this tutorial and install everything yourself: http://beans.seartipy.com/2008/06/09/setting-up-rails-development-environment-on-windows-vistaxp/
If you're really beginning and have no special attachment to the stuff you've downloaded, try getting the latest Netbeans (v6.1) which comes with Ruby and Rails build in. Its massively simple to install and get running. (A double click install). Then, once you've done that do a "File > New Project > Ruby > Ruby On Rails Application", press F6 and you'll be looking at the start page of your first Rails App.
To get to grips with it all, I'd suggest Sang Shin's free Ruby On Rails course. Its been running a while, but its free, is hands on, has some excellent material, and covers a great deal. I'm doing it and have learned a lot about Rails and Ruby also.
HTH
I use Heroku this is the Signup page for all my Rails Development
You don't have to install or set up anything and you are up and running Fast.
Also, this is a good tutorial for setting up Instant Rails on Vista:
You should really consider just install a Virtual Machine using VMWare if possible. You can still get start with Windows, but you could come across a lot of hiccups on various packages you want to use. I was from Windows too... now I switched myself to a mac and never looked back....
The point is, Ruby runs just a lot better on any POSIX other than using Windows, so its better not to try forcing anything suppose to work properly on one platform on another one. Practically, you will NEVER consider hosting a rails application in Windows (similarly, I doubted if you should ever consider hosting a PHP app in Windows too... you are just putting more cost to hurt your own feet by doing so...)
Another possibility is try to get Ubuntu setup on a USB memory/ hard drive and boot using that when you want to play Rails, slightly problematic, but better performance.
NetBeans as suggested as beginner IDE is good. Although if you get start properly with a good book (Pragmatic defacto Rails book 3rd edition is a good choice, you will never put that one down even after so long as the references are just too useful). Alternatively Rails Guide is something you shouldn't miss.
These are the best tutorials that I have seen for setting up rails on Windows.
Xp: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/articles/6467-setting-up-rails-on-windows-xp
Vista: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/articles/6491-setting-up-rails-on-windows-vista
I used this tutorial just yesterday and it worked well. BUT you need to install RubyGems yourself, after installing Ruby and before installing Rails. I found this guide helpful for RubyGems installation.
I was not able to use an environment variable to set up the http proxy; instead I must pass that as a param on the CL when installing gems (-p [myproxy].[mysite]:[port])
Late to the party, but could you try this tutorial instead?
Getting Started with Rails and MySQL
Two observations:
--source http://gems.rubyinstaller.org is no longer needed. remove that part from the command
Install latest RC1 for either 1.9.1 or 1.8.6 from here
Hope that helps
Here's some tools that have helped me in Windows for general RoR development
TextMate-like editor: http://www.e-texteditor.com/
Multi-tab SSH client: http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html
Full featured UNIX shell (including git): http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
I just followed this tutorial, and it worked great the first time, and gives steps to take if you encounter common errors. I HIGHLY recommend it. it's one of the best tutorials I've ever gone through. I'm an ASP .NET guy, and I had no trouble.
My suggestion is to begin with a microframework. Something like Sinatra. You can move to Rails / Merb afterwards.
checkout Rails Windows Installer
it installs :
Ruby 1.8.7-p330
Rails 3.0.3
Git 1.7.3.1
Sqlite 3.7.3
DevKit
Rubystack is a free, all-in-one installer for Windows that installs Apache, MySQL, Ruby, Rails and all other third-party libraries typically used on a development environment (such as Imagemagick). We include PHP as well, but no lighttpd