Rails - Apr 2008 - first impressions from a newbie on setting up ruby on rails

After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the
download page http://www.rubyonrails.org/down, I decided to go for
instant rails. The reasons being:

1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
error message and there wasn''t anyplace to go for quick answers.

2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or just
any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
command or is there something called a script/server that I am
supposed to enter?

I have a masters'' in Computer Science and lots of experience with
various languages. If I''m finding this page confusing, chances are
others will as well.

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On 23 Apr 2008, at 00:31, Michael Phoenix wrote:
>
> After downloading and installing ruby and gems as suggested on the
> download page http://www.rubyonrails.org/down, I decided to go for
> instant rails. The reasons being:
>
> 1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
> error message and there wasn''t anyplace to go for quick answers.
You could start by saying what the error was :-)
> 2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.
>
> rails path/to/your/new/application
> cd path/to/your/new/application
> ruby script/server
>
> Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or
just
> any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
> command or is there something called a script/server that I am
> supposed to enter?
path/to/your/new/application does just mean  ''wherever you want your  
application to be''
ruby script/server will run the script that spawns a server

Fred
>
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Michael Phoenix wrote:
>...
> 
> 1. when I ran gem install rails --include-dependencies I got a strange
> error message and there wasn''t anyplace to go for quick answers.
...and what were those strange errors?
> 
> 2 the instructions under "make your applicaiton" were confusing.
> 
> rails path/to/your/new/application
> cd path/to/your/new/application
> ruby script/server
> 
> Is "path/to/your/new/application" a particular path in ruby or
just
> any one you choose? Does the last line represent the entire literal
> command or is there something called a script/server that I am
> supposed to enter?
1) Any path you choose - it''s just a location for rails to create its 
directory structure and file it with files

2) There is a server file in the script directory (in the rails 
framework created above).  "script/server" is shorthand for this.

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