Rails 7.0.0 was released just yesterday and as a Ruby user primarily on Windows, I was keen to see if it works and runs on Windows.
Thanks to the stellar work of everyone involved, it just works. In short, all you need to do is as below:
- RubyInstaller – Download and install Ruby 2.7.x or Ruby 3.0.x on your Windows computer
- Open a console window, and follow the commands below.
$ gem install rails
$ rails new project0
Once done, go on in to the project0 folder and start the Rails Server
ruby bin\rails serverThen, open a web browser and take a look at http://localhost:3000/ to be greeted with this.
I was expecting to document some workarounds and problems I faced but at least at the very beginning, there was nothing much. I ran into only one thing:
The system cannot find the path specified.
Run turbo:install:redis to switch on Redis and use it in development for turbo streams
I think Redis is a bit more difficult to get running on Windows, but this needs a closer look.
I’m leaving the rest of the command line outputs in the next section so that you can compare and see what kinds of outputs were shown and to see if something on your side worked differently. However, I must say this is a great start!
So, what’s next? Literally, everything! The basic application uses sqlite3 and you might want to use PostgreSQL – you can either install it directly or set it up without an installation. I hope that if I play around a bit more in Rails on Windows, I will try to document what I learn and find.
Detailed steps
Let’s start by seeing the Ruby version we have.
$ ruby -v
ruby 3.0.3p157 (2021-11-24 revision 3fb7d2cadc) [x64-mingw32]
Next, install Rails.
$ gem install rails
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27 gems installed
Next, create a new project.
$ rails new project0
create
create README.md
create Rakefile
create .ruby-version
create config.ru
create .gitignore
create .gitattributes
create Gemfile
run git init from "."
Initialized empty Git repository in D:/projects/blog/_posts-trials/rails/project0/.git/
create app
create app/assets/config/manifest.js
create app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
create app/channels/application_cable/channel.rb
create app/channels/application_cable/connection.rb
create app/controllers/application_controller.rb
create app/helpers/application_helper.rb
create app/jobs/application_job.rb
create app/mailers/application_mailer.rb
create app/models/application_record.rb
create app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
create app/views/layouts/mailer.html.erb
create app/views/layouts/mailer.text.erb
create app/assets/images
create app/assets/images/.keep
create app/controllers/concerns/.keep
create app/models/concerns/.keep
create bin
create bin/rails
create bin/rake
create bin/setup
create config
create config/routes.rb
create config/application.rb
create config/environment.rb
create config/cable.yml
create config/puma.rb
create config/storage.yml
create config/environments
create config/environments/development.rb
create config/environments/production.rb
create config/environments/test.rb
create config/initializers
create config/initializers/assets.rb
create config/initializers/content_security_policy.rb
create config/initializers/cors.rb
create config/initializers/filter_parameter_logging.rb
create config/initializers/inflections.rb
create config/initializers/new_framework_defaults_7_0.rb
create config/initializers/permissions_policy.rb
create config/locales
create config/locales/en.yml
create config/master.key
append .gitignore
create config/boot.rb
create config/database.yml
create db
create db/seeds.rb
create lib
create lib/tasks
create lib/tasks/.keep
create lib/assets
create lib/assets/.keep
create log
create log/.keep
create public
create public/404.html
create public/422.html
create public/500.html
create public/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
create public/apple-touch-icon.png
create public/favicon.ico
create public/robots.txt
create tmp
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create tmp/pids
create tmp/pids/.keep
create tmp/cache
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create vendor
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create test/fixtures/files
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create test/controllers
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create test/mailers
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create test/models
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create test/helpers
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create test/integration
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create test/test_helper.rb
create test/system
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create test/application_system_test_case.rb
create storage
create storage/.keep
create tmp/storage
create tmp/storage/.keep
remove config/initializers/cors.rb
remove config/initializers/new_framework_defaults_7_0.rb
run bundle install
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Bundle complete! 15 Gemfile dependencies, 67 gems now installed.
Use `bundle info [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
run bundle binstubs bundler
rails importmap:install
Add Importmap include tags in application layout
insert app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
Create application.js module as entrypoint
create app/javascript/application.js
Use vendor/javascript for downloaded pins
create vendor/javascript
create vendor/javascript/.keep
Ensure JavaScript files are in the Sprocket manifest
append app/assets/config/manifest.js
Configure importmap paths in config/importmap.rb
create config/importmap.rb
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create bin/importmap
rails turbo:install stimulus:install
Import Turbo
append app/javascript/application.js
Pin Turbo
append config/importmap.rb
The system cannot find the path specified.
Run turbo:install:redis to switch on Redis and use it in development for turbo streams
Create controllers directory
create app/javascript/controllers
create app/javascript/controllers/index.js
create app/javascript/controllers/application.js
create app/javascript/controllers/hello_controller.js
Import Stimulus controllers
append app/javascript/application.js
Pin Stimulus
append config/importmap.rb
This is where we see the one warning and comment:
The system cannot find the path specified.
Run turbo:install:redis to switch on Redis and use it in development for turbo streams
Now, move into that folder (project0 in our case) and start the server by doing ruby bin\rails server in that directory. Remember to hit Ctrl-C to shut down the server once you’re done using it.
$ ruby bin\rails server
=> Booting Puma
=> Rails 7.0.0 application starting in development
=> Run `bin/rails server --help` for more startup options
*** SIGUSR2 not implemented, signal based restart unavailable!
*** SIGUSR1 not implemented, signal based restart unavailable!
*** SIGHUP not implemented, signal based logs reopening unavailable!
Puma starting in single mode...
* Puma version: 5.5.2 (ruby 3.0.3-p157) ("Zawgyi")
* Min threads: 5
* Max threads: 5
* Environment: development
* PID: 28884
* Listening on http://[::1]:3000
* Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3000
Use Ctrl-C to stop
Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2021-12-17 18:22:29 +0800
(4.5ms) SELECT sqlite_version(*)
Processing by Rails::WelcomeController#index as HTML
Rendering C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/railties-7.0.0/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb
Rendered C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/railties-7.0.0/lib/rails/templates/rails/welcome/index.html.erb (Duration: 7.7ms | Allocations: 844)
Completed 200 OK in 65ms (Views: 23.2ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 7937)
Update on the Minor Warning
As I noted earlier, there is a small warning and comment that comes up.
The system cannot find the path specified.
Run turbo:install:redis to switch on Redis and use it in development for turbo streams
I tracked this down to a method in a rake task (within turbo-rails) for installing Turbo and has to do with redis. That method basically checks if redis is available on the system and activates it to use redis if it is. This redirects the output to /dev/null which is not a path on Windows and therefore the error. Also, it uses which and that is not available on Windows either. It’s not a big problem and Rails is still set up properly even if you see that message – you just need to be aware of it and that you’ll need Redis if you want to use it. I opened an issue on the turbo-rails tracker if you want to follow it.
Further update on the issue: I raised a Pull Request to fix that minor issue. It’s been merged and I expect that the next release will fix it, even on Windows.
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