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I do not know anything about Ruby still I would like to install BBYIDX on my clean Windows 7 machine.

If you don't know how to install this special website at least describe me how to run a Ruby on Rails web application from scratch please.

Germstorm
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Install Postgres

You can download Postgres from here

Launch pgadmin tool

  • Create a user called bbyidx (with password bbyidx) with admin privileges.

  • Create a database called bbyidx_dev.

Install ruby

Download and install Ruby.

Install ruby dev kit

  • Download and install the dev kit.

  • When installing the Development Kit, type C:\RubyDevKit in the Extract To field. Click the Extract button.

  • Enter these commands in a command prompt

    cd "C:\RubyDevKit"
ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install

  • Close the command prompt window.

Install bundler

gem install bundler

Download the source code for BBYIDX

  • Create a directory called bbyidx on C drive.

  • Download the latest zipball of the project source code.

  • Unzip the downloaded zip file to c:\bbyidx directory.

Configure config/environment_custom.rb

Set following parameter at minimum:

SESSION_SECRET = 'GIVE SOME LONG KEY HERE'

Add Postgres gem to gems file

Add the following text to the 3rd line of the file c:\bbyidx\Gemfile 

gem 'pg'

Install the required gems and create the required tables.

bundle install
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

Run the server

ruby script/server

Test the server

Launch the browser and http://localhost:3000

Reference

  1. Read this answer for more details about configuring Postgres
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  • I am starting to try it out now... Are you sure about the "script/server" command to run the server? – Germstorm Dec 29 '11 at 11:54
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    if it's Rails 3, instead of that script you start the server using rake – Ismael Luceno Jan 04 '12 at 19:30
  • @Germstorm, the instructions are for Rails 2.3.x as BBYIDX doesnt support Rails 3. Here is what they say about this topic: `BBYIDX runs on Rails 2.3. It does not (yet) run on Rails 3. Don't worry about installing the correct version of Rails and all the gems and plugins; bundler should take care of all that automatically.` – Harish Shetty Jan 07 '12 at 22:05