Second Rails post of the week. I don’t really mind since it’s just going to be a small post and would let me reach my 2 post per week quota this early.
Remember that post about Ruby on Windows? Well, one thing led to another and PhRUG thought it was a good idea to fork the RubyInstaller to create an installer which includes everything one needs to create a Rails 3 app (Ruby + Rails + SQLite). Being the sneaky guy I am, I decided to create a proof of concept installer by hacking away at the RubyInstaller source code.
Here’s that installer: Rails For (the) Windows, version 0 (edit: latest version is v0.4. grab it here)
With this installer, you can create Rails apps in just a few steps:
- Download and run the RailsFTW installer.
- Start Command Prompt with Ruby. If you ticked “Add Ruby executables to your PATH” in the install process, you can simply open a normal command prompt
From there, you can now create the 5-command rails app:
C:\Users\me> rails new blog C:\Users\me> cd blog C:\Users\me\blog> rails generate scaffold entry subject:string content:text C:\Users\me\blog> rake db:migrate C:\Users\me\blog> rails server
You may have to unblock ruby in the firewall prompt to make the server work.
Open http://localhost:3000/entries to see your new app.
We still have a long way to go before we could supercede InstantRails, but this little hack job looks promising. Luis Lavena, a main contributor to RubyInstaller, even approves of this venture. Maybe later we could move on to other Ruby frameworks… Merb FTW or Sinatra FTW anyone?
“Because we know that you’d rather spend time working on Rails rather than installing it. ”
From the beginning…still endure to install the “normal way”…finally give up and try this Rails FTW
Gossh…love the tagline!!!! thx a lot