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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Generate a Rails Application

Posted by Daniel Colthart
Daniel Colthart
Courses Plus Student 87 Points

How to use RVM on windows

Command prompt does no allow $ and says that I need to use run or something. Anyone have any ideas?

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

From the teacher notes found below the video:

> It is also not necessary to type the "rvm use" command on Windows.

Daniel Colthart
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Daniel Colthart
Courses Plus Student 87 Points
Daniel Colthart
Daniel Colthart
Courses Plus Student 87 Points

Hello there,

So can I just start with $ rails new?

Regards

DcoltGaming

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Once again the actual commands are found in the teacher's notes below the video.

Create a new rails application:

rails new treebook

Note the lack of a $ in front of the command.

On the terminal in systems that are Unix-flavored (e.g. Linux & OS X) that $ is part of the prompt and not part of the actual command. The $ means this account is a user account, which is to distinguish it from a # meaning the root account.