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Ruby Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Windows

Jason Martin
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Jason Martin
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Posted by Jason Martin
Jason Martin
Courses Plus Student 9,316 Points

Missing helper file

Followed windows setup but upon using the command "rails server" and going to http://localhost:3000 I get a missing helper file error

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nulled
nulled
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nulled
nulled
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Make sure your capitalization is correct in the application helper file. For instance:

This is wrong: /Users/username/Development/folder/projectfolder/app/helpers/application_helper.rb

This is correct: /Users/username/development/folder/projectfolder/app/helpers/application_helper.rb

Rename the Development folder to development with lowercase. Let me know if this works.

Jason Martin
Jason Martin
Courses Plus Student 9,316 Points
Jason Martin
Jason Martin
Courses Plus Student 9,316 Points

I had to switch directories as well as I was using my project folder located in Documents. I placed it and made sure all there was no capitalization - worked good. Thanks!