Rails Installer (Windows)

Installing Rails on Windows used to be a real pain, but thanks to the efforts of the good people at Engine Yard—especially Dr. Nic Williams and Wayne E. Seguin—installing Rails and related software on Windows is now easy. If you are using Windows, go to Rails Installer and download the Rails Installer executable and view the excellent installation video. Double-click the executable and follow the instructions to install Git (so you can skip Section 1.2.2), Ruby (skip Section 1.2.2), RubyGems (skip Section 1.2.2), and Rails itself (skip Section 1.2.2). Once the installation has finished, you can skip right to the creation of the first application in Section 1.2.3. Bear in mind that the Rails Installer might use a slightly different version of Rails from the one installed in Section 1.2.2, which might cause incompatibilities. To fix this, I am currently working with Nic and Wayne to create a list of Rails Installers ordered by Rails version number.