Introduction

Easiest way to install Ruby on Rails (RoR) on to a PC is to use InstantRails. You can download InstantRails from http://rubyforge.org/projects/instantrails/

You then need to install Active Scaffold either by downloading from http://www.activescaffold.com/ and copy into you rails application ..vendor/plugins/ directory, or typing a gem command (if you are not behind a proxy:

./script/plugin install http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/active_scaffold

To edit the RoR code use a test editor like RadRails which can be downloaded from http://www.aptana.com/download_radrails.php

Details

Before installing each bit of software read instructions carefully.

Open two console window in in instant rails one for instructions and one for running web server.

To set-up RoR to run for the example application, "the Bids Report", you need to do the following: Create a RoR application in the "\InstantRails\rails_apps\" directory:

rails top20a

Create the Database to hold all the data

mysqladmin -u root create top20_development

To run web server in top20 directory type:

ruby script/server