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Hello everyone and welcome, the first
thing that we're gonna do is actually
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install Ruby on Rails, if you already have
it installed that you can skip this part,
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but yeah, we're gonna install it.
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So, the first thing we're gonna do is
search up, turn windows features on or
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off, do you see the one called
Virtual Machine Platform?
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We're gonna turn that one on, then we're
also gonna need to turn on two more ones
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and that is called Windows Subsystem for
Linux, and
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it's also called
Windows Hypervisor Platform.
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These are certain prerequisites that we
need to actually install Ruby on Rails on
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windows, we're gonna
be doing it via Linux.
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So we're actually gonna install
a subsystem for Linux on windows, and
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it's gonna take few gigabytes,
so make sure you have the space.
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And once you have these turned on, it's
gonna require us to restart our computer.
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So go ahead and restart your computer, and
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as you can see now it says to
restart the computer, so restart.
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Okay, so now that you've restarted your
computer, go to the Microsoft Store, and
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then inside of here we're just going to
install something called Windows Terminal,
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which is what I'm going to
be using in the course.
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So make sure you have Windows Terminal
installed, it's a really good terminal,
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and install that, once you have that done,
go and install VS code,
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VS Code also stands for
Visual Studio code.
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And search up Visual Studio code and then
just go on here, and then say Download for
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windows, and as you can see, it's gonna
download now and then open it up and
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set it up and that's it.
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Next, let's go back to
the Microsoft Store and inside of here,
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we're gonna search up Ubuntu.
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This is the version of Linux that we're
going to run, and inside of here,
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we're gonna click on the one that says,
the 2022.04.5 LTS, LTS stands for
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Long Term Support.
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So make sure to get this one,
hit Install, it's gonna install,
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it's gonna take like about 15 minutes,
20 minutes depending on your Wi-Fi.
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Once that is installed, you're gonna have
to search up Ubuntu, and then you're gonna
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get given a terminal, and then there's
gonna be some setup instructions here.
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Should only take a few seconds,
you won't need me to guide you, okay, so
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once you have Ubuntu Installed, go ahead
and open up your windows terminal.
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We're gonna be using a guide from Digital
Ocean to install rails, as you can see,
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I have it on the right, this will be
linked in the description of the video.
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So we're gonna go down here and we're
gonna copy these commands in here, so
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RBENV is the Ruby version package manager,
so we're gonna need to install that first.
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So go ahead and run sudo apt update,
it's gonna ask me for my password,
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now that that's done,
we're gonna go ahead and
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install the dependencies required for
Ruby.
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As you can see, that's done,
run the next command,
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now we need to add RBENV to our path,
so run that command.
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Now, I'm just gonna hit Clear,
so you can see echo eval and
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then we're gonna get source, and
after running all of these command,
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now we can actually run type RBENV and
we should see this output.
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Now, we're actually going to install Ruby,
so go ahead and run the next command,
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which is RBENV install-l, as you can see,
I've already got everything installed.
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So another thing's gonna happen,
and now to actually install Ruby,
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we're gonna run RBENV install 3.4.1.
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Now that we have actually installed Ruby,
we're gonna go ahead and
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set as the default version.
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To do that,
run the command rbenv global and
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then the version, so 3.4.1,
now we can run ruby-v, and
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now we can see that Ruby has
successfully been installed on our WSL.
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Next, we're going to install bundler, so
to do that, scroll down the tutorial and
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we're gonna run our first command,
echo gem no document from that.
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And then done gem install bundler, and
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then next we're actually going
to install Ruby on Rails.
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So to do this, we're gonna go ahead and
run gem install rails, this is gonna
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automatically install the newest version
of rails, if we wanna specify a version,
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then we can just run -V and then
the version, but we wanna run the newest.
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So hit Enter, and as you can see,
now it's installing Rails.
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It looks like it has been installed and
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now we have to run rbenv rehash just to
allow the commands to actually enter.
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So I'm just gonna full screen, hit Clear,
and then we're just gonna bump it up and
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we're gonna do make.
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Well, first of all do ls and
it's just the beginner and Rails.
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So I'm just gonna go into Rails,
so cd rails.
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And then we're gonna do
rails new twitter clone.
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Rails new stands for, well,
that creates a new application and
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we're gonna call it twitterclone,
re-hit Enter.
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If we hit ls, then we can go into
twitterclone, so cd twitterclone.
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And now if we do code dot should
open it up in Visual Studio code.
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As you can see, it's actually
installing VS Code Server for Linux.
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So we're gonna have to install that.
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Now it's opening up Visual Studio code,
and as you can see,
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we have our application here.
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Now that we have our application,
I know that Rails was installed correctly,
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I'll go ahead and
show you what all of these files do.
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