Newbie on "Script-Generate"

Question

I am a newbie to Ruby on Rails and I am trying to learn it.

At the moment, I am using ruby tutorial that is about 5 years old.

I am stuck on the 2nd page of the tutorial where I am generating a script or the controller in the command window.

C:\rails> ruby script\generate controller MyTest 
ruby: No such file or directory script/generate (LoadError)

What are my alternative to generating the script? And if possible, can someone show me a tutorial that isn't so outdated?

Much appreciated

Answer 1

I could be wrong, but that could be a problem with ruby on windows, what version of ruby are you running? Type ruby -v in the console.

Another reason could be that you are probably not in a rails application directory. You have to create a rails application by creating a directory, and then doing rails thedirectory/ in the console, which will initialize all of the rails files for you. Once done, you cd into the directory and should be able to run the script/generate script.

Also, this is by no means a definitive source, but the Rails Guides site is pretty good.

Answer 2

As for a tutorial, looked at Getting Started with Rails?

Answer 3

Seems like you're not in the right folder. If you're following the tutorial you linked, you need to 'cd cookbook' from the c:\rails folder.