Ruby on Rails Installation on windows xp

 You can get all the msgs below listed on the net. Try to google 'ruby on rails ', you can get a more detailed page. But it may occur some errors during your installation, follow the tip, you can sovle it.

1.rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p290.exe

2.rubygems-1.8.9,  extract, then run "ruby setup.rb"  

3.DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20110712-1620-sfx.exe（needed  on gem install rails）

Installation

• DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20110712-1620-sfx.exe,ruby dk.rb init to generate the config.yml file to be used later in this Step. Your installed Rubies will be listed there (only those installed by a RubyInstaller package are detected at present).
• edit the generated config.yml file to include installed Rubies not automagically discovered or remove Rubies you do not want to use the DevKit with.
• finally, ruby dk.rb install to DevKit enhance your installed Rubies. This step installs (or updates) an operating_system.rb file into the relevant directory needed to implement a RubyGems pre_install hook and a devkit.rb helper library file into <RUBY_INSTALL_DIR>\lib\ruby\site_ruby. NOTE: you may need to use the --force option to update (with backup of the originals) the above mentioned files as discussed at the SFX DevKit upgrade FAQ entry.

Test Installation

• Confirm your Ruby environment is correctly using the DevKit by running gem install rdiscount --platform=ruby. RDiscount should install correctly and you should see Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... in the screen messages. Next run ruby -rubygems -e "require 'rdiscount'; puts RDiscount.new('**Hello RubyInstaller**').to_html" to confirm that the rdiscount gem is working.

4.Gem install rails(Rails3.1.1)

Test

Rails new tutorial(create a web app)

Rails s(start server)