bin/rails giving error that 'bin' is not recognized as internal

Question

I am a beginner trying to learn and do the Ruby on Rails tutorials (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#installing-rails)

and for all the bin commands in the command window such as $ bin/rails --version or $ bin/rails server

I am getting the error " 'bin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.'

I just installed the latest version of Ruby so I've tried running rake rails:update:bin

and I also added the PATH variable C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.3\bin to my environment variables.

I'm still getting the same error.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You are getting those errors because you are on Windows. In this case you have to pass the scripts under the bin folder directly to the Ruby interpreter like this:

ruby bin\rails server

Answer 2

If you have added the bin directory to your PATH variable, then you don't need to use it in the command. Just type $ rails --version, etc.