Comments on: Getting Rails to Work on a Windows Machine Running Xampp

By: Como instalar o Ruby/Rails no Windows?

Como instalar o Ruby/Rails no Windows? — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:11:12 +0000

[...] Caso tenha algum problema no processo, acesse um tutorial semelhante, só que mais detalhado: http://www.grapethinking.com/getting-rails-to-work-on-a-windows-machine-running-xampp [...]

By: How do I configure Ruby On Rails on windows XP with APACHE and MYSQL - Question Lounge

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:56:11 +0000

[...] on rails.I also tried InstantRails but faced same problems.I went through the tutorial mentioned in getting rails to wrok on a windows machine running xampp and did all the steps which were necessary.All went fine (installing rails, running the ruby, gem [...]

By: How do I configure Ruby On Rails on windows XP with APACHE and MYSQL

How do I configure Ruby On Rails on windows XP with APACHE and MYSQL — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:06:10 +0000

[...] went through the tutorial mentioned in getting rails to wrok on a windows machine running xampp and did all the steps which were [...]

By: How do I configure Ruby On Rails on windows XP with APACHE and MYSQL Drija

How do I configure Ruby On Rails on windows XP with APACHE and MYSQL Drija — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:10:39 +0000

[...] went through the tutorial mentioned in getting rails to wrok on a windows machine running xampp and did all the steps which were [...]

By: Rorysmyth

Rorysmyth — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:05:00 +0000

Just as an update for others, to create the app. change the following from

rails C:/xampp/htdocs/

rails new C:/xampp/htdocs/

By: radj

radj — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:25:00 +0000

Ooh! Never mind! I found out how.

Just use:
gem update -p http://username:password@proxy.url.com

No need for username and password if the proxy is not authenticated. Hope this helps someone!

By: radj

radj — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:16:00 +0000

Hello. I'm encountering a problem.When I run "gem update", this error shows up:Updating installed gemsERROR: http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repositoryERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failedbecause connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/yaml)Has anybody encountered this?Thanks for any help. I am also using a proxy. Is this supposed to work even if behind an authenticated proxy?

By: Orlando Del Aguila

Orlando Del Aguila — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:42:00 +0000

for you people looking using rails in windows… try this http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=904

By: Doze Design Inc

Doze Design Inc — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:45:52 +0000

Not working, the only thing that works is the “welcome abroad” page… this tutorial is FAKE

By: Didyaronamus

Didyaronamus — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:14:45 +0000

I removed the “/public” and it works perfect for me.