Recognizing Command

[marielouis46]

Command prompt with Ruby and Rails do not recognize "bin" as a command. A way to remedy that is to put "ruby" and then the rest of the command.

[steveklabnik]

Yes, thanks! It's a windows specific thing, our tutorials are written from a Mac/Linux perspective.

I'm going to leave this open as a reminder to create a "Changes on windows" page.

[kytrinyx]

@steveklabnik I'm working on the blogger tutorial now. From the above I'm assuming that the command to kick this off on Windows is:

ruby bin/rails server

Is that correct?

What is the preferred format on Mac/Linux?

$ bin/rails server # does everyone get bin on their path?
$ ./bin/rails server
$ bundle exec rails server # old-school?

[steveklabnik]

The preferred incantation is bin/rails server. That's what all of the docs say to do now.

On Windows, you must ruby bin/rails server because it doesn't support #!.

You don't need anything special on your path to bin/rails server, it just works. ./bin/rails server is a bit more explicit; if bin is in your $PATH then you'd just rails.

[kytrinyx]

Great, thanks.