Question

I have a Windows 7 laptop, and I think I installed everything correctly, and I am trying to follow a couple tutorials to learn from. I can make a new application ok, and I can start the server just fine by typing “rails server”, and I can go to the localhost:3000 ‘welcome aboard’ page just fine, but after that the tutorials ask me to type other stuff into the command prompt window. The problem is, with the server running, I can’t type anything into the command prompt window! I’m obviously doing something wrong.. anyone have any idea of what I should be doing?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to open another command window.

I set up students to use more than one command window like this:

• one for typing most commands
• one for running the server
• one for printing the log file using the “tail -f” command to show ongoing progress
• one for running rails console