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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:47:03+00:00

I started learning Ruby from ( http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html ) and successfully installed ruby and created

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I started learning Ruby from (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html) and successfully installed ruby and created a blog folder under htdocs as given in the tutorial.

During the creation of new folder(blog folder) its showing “Fetching source index for https://rubygems.org” and installed some bundles with the final message “Your bundle is complete! Use ‘bundle show [gemname]’ to see…..” but when i run the command like “bundle show jquery-rails” it flags message like “Could not locate GemFile” then i searched this file in my computer and found it under
“C:\Users\MyComUserName\.gem\specs\rubygems.org%443\quick\Marshal.4.8“.

Now my question is – what i did wrong, and how could i resolve it if i really did something wrong. I am from PHP background so using XAMPP and saving ROR projects too under my HTDOCS folder (Windows 7 OS im using). How could i use gems or how they are beneficial to me while development. I looked at this article too (http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/1/) but unable to get a lot as i am at very initial stage. Kindly guide me as im at very initial step to use RoR, looking for a descriptive answer with some links to get more hands on RoR.

(I am from PHP background and aware of MVC).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try running this in your project’s directory:

    gem install jquery-rails
bundle show jquery-rails

    It seems redundant to install the gem even though it was listed as installing, but it’s best to double check.

    I’m not sure – and please edit if you know – but I think that rails installs all of your gems in the ruby/gems folder and looks for them when you need them. Maybe somehow the jquery-rails gem was put in the wrong place but installed correctly (hence, no error) and couldn’t find it when you ran bundle show jquery-rails the first time.

    Also, if you are just starting with ruby and rails, I would recommend the free courses offered on tryruby.org and railsforzombies.com. They don’t cover much, but they give you the basics you need to get things running.

    For more detailed and advanced tutorials, check out railscasts.com. He covers a lot of topics and shows a lot of useful tricks in rails.

    Best of luck and have fun with Ruby!

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