Ruby on Rails on Windows

It's always good to look at other languages and frameworks so I decided to try out Ruby on Rails.

I've just tried to install RoR onto Windows 7 using the instructions on the http://rubyonrails.org/download page. and it failed with the error:

Could not find gem `sqlite3 (>=0)` in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile.

All you need to do is to type into the command prompt:

gem install sqlite3

Once that has finished you'll need to get the appropriate dll from http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_7_3.zip. Extract the .dll file into your ruby/bin folder (wherever you installed Ruby). You should now be able to start up the rails server by typing:

rails server

To see your app running type http://localhost:3000/ into your web browser

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6 comments

1. If you are starting to look into other sandboxes Lift is pretty radical...
   
   Comment by Aaron Greenlee – April 04, 2011
2. Thanks for the pointer Aaron, looks very interesting.
   
   Comment by John Whish – April 04, 2011
3. Thanks for this post John no doubt ROR is a little more easier on time and construction - still there are age old organizations not so keen to adopt it due to existing rules.
   
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   Pervara
   
   Comment by Pervara Kapadia – April 08, 2011
4. I just wanted to thank you! This helped a lot to solve my problem on "Could not find gem `sqlite3 (>=0)` in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile."
   
   Comment by efe – April 10, 2011
5. Thanks, you just got me started with RoR (by solving the only speedbump in the install process).
   
   Much appreciated!
   
   -D
   
   Comment by dschwozzle – May 06, 2011
6. Thanks for this excellent post. I was on lookout for Instant Rails package for installing rails 3 on windows when google landed me to your blog. Took me five minutes to get the whole thing running on Vista - keep up the good work.
   
   Comment by Rooby G – January 26, 2012