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

By: Greasy

Greasy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:14 +0000

Got this to work on Vista SP2 first time!
nice action

By: fizza

fizza — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:57:35 +0000

Unable to connect http://localhost:3000 . I cannot connect to localhost. I put already
Listen 3000
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
#################################
# RUBY SETUP
#################################

ServerName rails
DocumentRoot “c:/xampp/htdocs//public”

Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

#################################
# RUBY SETUP
#################################

By: jake

jake — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:29 +0000

Hi Wow… while I understand your frustration, please note that the guide works for getting rails up and running to “Hello World”, but there are a ton of other issues that arise (as I’m sure you’ve discovered) once you start developing your app.. this is why there is a bold section in the post with the update that I no longer use rails in windows… in addition to comment 24.

By: Wow.. just WOW

Wow.. just WOW — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:31:00 +0000

Jake. While I appreciate your attempt at trying to help windows users install RoR, I just spent over an hour installing and troubleshooting according to this guide, just to find you saying in Comment 24 that you “gave up”????

If this guide does not work, PLEASE TAKE IT DOWN. While u were doing a great service with good intentions, the fact that you’re misleading people is now a great disservice.

By: DMA

DMA — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:27:05 +0000

Hello Jake, I have seen same instructions in other places, so this should work fine but why is not working I dunno. Is there anyone who has used in windows machine??

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:57:30 +0000

Hi DMA.. sorry I did not update the post sooner. I gave up on using rails on a windows machine. I now do all of my rails work by dual booting to linux. It was definitely worth it!

By: DMA

DMA — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:43:38 +0000

Hi
I have followed the above step but getting the following error when I goto http://localhost:3000 and explore the “About your application environment”

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
04/15/09 12:55:55
Apache/2.2.9 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.6

Thanks in advance.

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By: Deep

Deep — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:20:59 +0000

I cant able to run .rb file through this way , anybody can help me how to run .rb file on http://localhost:3000

By: misyn

misyn — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:37:01 +0000

@Dick I’m having the same problem. I get the welcome aboard but hitting a test page (e.g. http://localhost:3000/say/hello) returns a 404, Object not found! error.