Question

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.

Answer 1

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