Error when Installing ruby on rails on Windows 8

Question

I need to install ruby on rails for college. I can get as far as the 'welcome page' but when I try to run a sample page I'm getting an error.

A friend of mine has a similar problem and he too uses windows 8.

I got out an old laptop ( Windows 7 ) and installed it and I'm not getting the error page so I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with Windows 8.

Screenshot here...

Can you include the error message you're getting in the question please? — user229044
– user229044 ♦, Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 18:19
possible duplicate of ExecJS::RuntimeError on windows 7 trying to follow rubytutorial — Nate
– Nate, Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 18:39

alf · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-21 18:27:36Z

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You have to either install nodejs, or add TheRubyRacer gem to your project. To do the latter, edit your Gemfile and add:

gem 'therubyracer'

Then run:

bundle install

And that should fix it.

answered Feb 21, 2013 at 18:27

alf

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Actually, therubyracer gem depends on libv8 which doesn't compile on Windows.

I seen in a similar thread that by removing '//= require_tree' it works but I'm not sure if this will affect other things.

yes, installing nodejs seems to have solved the problem. thanks Alfonso.