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Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.

This release of Instant Rails is for Windows, but there are plans for ports to Linux, BSD, and OSX. See the Release Notes for a list of everything included in Instant Rails (including their version numbers).

Instant Rails includes the full source code of the cookbook application developed in the [Rolling with Ruby on Rails] tutorial. Once you have installed Instant Rails, you can verify that everything is working properly by running this cookbook application.

Instant Rails also contains the Rails-based blogging software [Typo] as a preinstalled sample web application.

Upgrading

If you have installed a previous version of Instant Rails, see How To Upgrade for instructions on how to upgrade your installation while retaining your data and customizations.

Install & Verify

Follow these steps to install Instant Rails and verify that it is working properly:

127.0.0.1 www.mycookbook.com
127.0.0.1 typo

HTTP://www.mycookbook.com

You should now be using a running Rails application!

If not, perhaps you have an already-running Apache instance. Shut this down, and InstantRails should magically work. Poke around in the menus of Instant Rails to see what's there.

Running Typo

HTTP://typo

You should be taken through a series of admin setup screens.

Questions and Answers

Users should submit their Getting Started questions below.


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