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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Viewing Todo Items: Part 1

Posted by jay niceness
jay niceness
7,406 Points

bin/ vs no bin/ in terminal ...

wondering why we are told you type /bin before the rake commands and most of this tutorial why can't we just use the standard prompt without starting with /bin?

1 Answer

mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points
mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points

Because it's a different command without calling /bin/rails

by default it uses your path from ~/.profile but when you are inside your project you have a separate bin directory there and you are actually invoking project's command instead of a <system's> command.

Does it make sense ?

jay niceness
jay niceness
7,406 Points

i think so thanks, i've read it's basically to specify and make sure you are running the proper version of ruby if you have several versions installed.