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delanobartolomei
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Error : "'rails' is not recognized as an internal or external command" when trying to install Rails !!!

Hello everyone,

I am a newbie and I'd appreciate your help on my problem trying to install Rails. First, i'd like to say i'm working on Win 8 Pro. I have carefully followed step by step the Rails environnment installation on Windows but when I typed 'gem install rails' only half have been succesfully installed and all the rest are parsing. I tried to type 'gem uninstall rails' to reinstall it afterwards but it says 'suceesfully uninstalled' and when I try to reinstall rails it installs 1 gem and rails still does not work.... What should I do ? Uninstall everything to reinstall again ? How can I do that ? Thanks for your help

andi mitre
andi mitre
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andi mitre
andi mitre
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What do you get if you type *rails -v * in cmd?

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delanobartolomei
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delanobartolomei
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Hello Andi

I get the same message 'rails is not recognized....' I think it's when I tried to install rails, only half of the docs completed 100%, other half is bugged... What should I do ?

andi mitre
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Try to reinstall, the gems will get overwritten when you install them again.

This link might be useful. Cheers

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I tried this but what happens is that it says it installed 2 gems and still does not work... How can I remove completely Ruby from my PC in order to try a clean reinstall ? Please help me