Ruby on Rails

On 31 May 2013 23:28, mark ronay <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Im a new user - I just installed rails, following directions here:
> http://rubyonrails.org/download
> however, when it came time to make a rails new path/etc/etc I get this
> message:
> Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of
> another, please change to a non-Rails directory first.

Rather than specifying a complex path to the new application (my guess
is that you have already created a rails app in path/etc/etc, so it
will not let you create a new one there) just cd to, for example your
home directory using
cd ~
then create an app called, for example, myapp
rails new myapp

Colin


> The only complication during the download was that I had to upgrade from
> version 1.8.6 to 1.9.3, which I did after installing rails. Otherwise
> Ive done nothing but follow the very simple directions.
> I found this very helpful thread http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1780147
> but when the output of ls -l shows just my usual directories. Any help
> is greatly appreciated.
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