http://www.rubyonrails.org/down

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

i dont get exactly what im supposed to write there.
1.the location of rails on my harddrive C:\ruby...
2.how do i write cd.. cd.. cd cat in one command?
if thats what im supposed to?
3. this i dont even get?


and is this supposed to be written int he editor scite then laucnhed from cmd?

and does it matter if i use / or \ in the path descriptions?

A Rails Website is an application, and so when Rails documentation talks about an application it means the site that you are building. Rails documentation always gives the command-line instructions, because these work for everybody, regardless of which editor/IDE or operating system they use.

To get started you need to first decide where to put the development copy of your new site. Next, open a command prompt window, and use "cd" to make that directory the working directory, e.g.

cd C:\mysites

Now runs the "rails" utility, specifying the name of your new site:

rails mynewsite

Rails then creates a directory called "mysite" containing the files for the site/application, with several subdirectories. The subdirectory "script" is automatically created and populated with useful Ruby scripts, such as "generate" and "server". As these are just ordinary Ruby scripts, you need to call the "ruby" program to run them.

If you now change the working directory of your command prompt to the directory for your new application, then this:

ruby script\server

Is the same as:

ruby.exe C:\mysites\mynewsite\script\server

Only shorter, and without Windows-specific bits.

The whole process:

Start > Run > type "cmd"

md C:\mysites
cd C:\mysites
rails mynewsite
cd mynewsite
ruby script\server

HTH