Rails - The system cannot find the path specified

Question

I have installed Rails and Ruby on Windows with railsinstaller. The problem is, when I run the rails command, it gives me: \"The system cannot find the path specified.\"

Answer 1

This is due to a bug in RailsInstaller, where two files have the location of ruby.exe hard-coded to work only on the RailsInstaller dev's machine. In C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\rails.bat (this is the default install folder, you might have rails.bat somewhere else if you picked a different install folder) you'll find these two lines:

@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

The emachnic user is the RailsInstaller developer. As a workaround, you can change these folders to the ones on your computer. For the default install folder, you'd change these to:

@"C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

@"C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

You will have to repeat this change for two similar lines in C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\bundle.bat as well.

Run rails -v to verify that rails is now working.

You can follow this issue on their git repo here: https://github.com/railsinstaller/railsinstaller-windows/issues/70