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Learn Rails on Windows, part 1

Background Ruby on Rails is a very well known framework, inspiring many frameworks created following Rails ways of organizing a web application. The frameworks I have used that are similar to Rails are : In PHP : CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Yii Framework  In Java : Spring Roo And it seems also being used in Openshift Origin for the implementation of Origin's web console and broker API. That and combined with our need to run Openshift Origin in our private cloud seems a good reason to learn Rails,  The tutorial Currently I am following the Ruby on Rails tutorial by Michael Hartl ( link ). The book strongly encourages using Linux based environment for development, but I am used to work from my Windows machine, so I tried to do development from my Windows Laptop. Preparation I installed the x64 version of Ruby 2.0.0 installer in  http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ for my Windows 8.1 system. I have cases that the 32 bit installer doesn't work for 32-bit Windows