How do I install Ruby on Rails

Question

I want to use Ruby on Rails framework to create a web applications. Can anyone help me with its installation please?

Comments

Can you please be more specific? You want to install it on WindowsOS or on Ubuntu or MacOS? Because for Windows its quite different and time consuming than for Ubuntu or MacOS.

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I want to install it for Windows10. And I tried to install it but its asking for some Linux subsystem. Please someone tell me how to install it on windows without any hassle.

Answer 1

Hi @Anvi, what @Pratibha has mentioned is true. For Ubuntu installation is quite simpler as you just have to type in some commands only, but installing RoR on WindowsOS is a bit tricky task. For that I am going to show you the step by step installation process:

1. Open Settings >> Navigate to Update & Security >> Tap on For Developers >> Click on Developer Mode:
   
    
2. Open Control Panel >> Go to Programs >> Click Turn Windows Features On or Off >> Tick the Checkbox for Windows Subsystem for Linux:  
   
    
3. Now open Microsoft Store >> Search for Ubuntu >> Click on Get to install the Ubuntu for Windows app: 
   
    
4. Open the Ubuntu app and it will show a screen like this. Now you first have to create a 'Unix User Account'. For that, enter the new 'Unix Username' and a new 'Unix Password'. You can use one word username and any password to setup this new user account : 
   
    
5. After successful creating of account you will get this screen. Now you can simply follow Ubuntu Setup steps to install ruby and rails: 
   
    
6. Now write the following commands one by one to install Ruby 2.6.1 :

   >> sudo apt-get update
   >> sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev software-properties-common libffi-dev
   
   >> git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
   >> echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
   >> echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
   >> exec $SHELL
   

   >> git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
   >> echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
   >> exec $SHELL
   
   >> rbenv install 2.6.1
   >> rbenv global 2.6.1
   >> ruby -v

   >> gem install bundler
   
   

7. To install Rails 5.2.2, write the following commands one by one on Ubuntu terminal:

   >> curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
   >> sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
   
   >> gem install rails -v 5.2.2
   >> rbenv rehash
   
   >> rails -v

8. By typing the last command you should be able to see the rails version which you have installed. And that's it. You have successfully installed the Rails framework on your windows10 machine.