Rails - The system cannot find the path specified

[askeroff]

I have installed rails and ruby with railsinstaller. The problem is, when i run rails command, it gives me: "The system cannot find the path specified."

I am running windows 7 x64. Ruby 2.20

Tried uninstalling rails and installing it againt, does not help. Ruby commands executes like "ruby -v", "rails -v" doesn`t work.

Have googled,didnt find solution for windows, that worked. I have uninstalled it and installed it, I dont know whats happening.
Ruby is in an environment path, so it executes rails with "rails -v", but gives me that message.
Someone help, please.

[j54n1n]

I encountered the same problem. I used the latest railsinstaller version 3.2.0 and I discovered that in the install path C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin some of the batch (*.bat) files contained a wrong path.
Instead of the string @"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" the files should contain something like @"%~dp0ruby.exe".

A temporary fix is to replace any string containing @"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" with @"%~dp0ruby.exe" after the line with :WinNT.

[askeroff]

@j54n1n , wow, changing path inside batch file worked. Did not know, I could do that. Been struggling with it whole day.Thanks a lot.

[emachnic]

Closed at dup of #70

[aheshan]

This helps me too on windows. The path was incorrect in bath file.

[BelieveC]

Thanxxx... A lottt! Saved a loottt of time

[priyanshAgarwal]

@j54n1n "some of the batch" can you explicitly define the batch files which require change.

[hope2332]

Thanks j5414, that did the trick for me and I only had to spend 10 minutes doing it!

[JP-x]

@priyansh1990

From what I determined sadly, was that you have to go through each of the batch files within the C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin directory.

In my case I went to bundle and bundler batch files since they were the commands that were not working.

[jayantbh]

I opened all the files under C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin in Sublime Text, and replaced with Ctrl+Shift+F,
This
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe"
with this
@"%~dp0ruby.exe"
across all files that had a match.

Took only a couple of seconds. This might help someone who stumbles across it after me.

[ziezam]

thanks , its work

[zegao96]

@jayantbh thanks a lot, it really saves my time!

[susantabiswas]

thanks a lot!!

[vinaymopidevi]

great thank you

[vinaymopidevi]

updated rails.bat

@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

[deepankar30052]

Solved the problem . Thanks

[ArthurZ]

It is still a problem, just saying please do not give up on Windows users.

[emachnic]

I don't know how to fix this. If anyone knows a Windows dev who might be
able to help, it would be much appreciated.

Evan
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:09 PM Arthur [email protected] wrote:

It is still a problem, just saying please do not give up on Windows users.

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[RyanSpears]

The solution by vinaymopidevi solved the problem for me too.

[Mortecha]

Solved the problem. Is there no way to fix this?

[SaqlainHussainShah]

where could i find my .bat file?

[thanhquang1988]

it work. thanks
I opened all the files under C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin in Sublime Text, and replaced with Ctrl+Shift+F,
This
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe"
with this
@"%~dp0ruby.exe"
across all files that had a match.

[ninoM]

Just replacing it with this:
@"%~dp0ruby.exe"
didn't work for me. rails -v was working for me though and it was "bundle install" that wasn't working so I went into rails.bat and copied the line below :WinNT and this is what I found
@"C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

which I copy pasted to the bundle.bat and bundler.bat and it worked! Hope this helps someone else.

[ghost]

Worked for me! Thanks heaps!

[webdril]

@jayantbh you really saved me...God bless you,your effort and others in this room

[valkyrea]

Worked for me, as well!!! Thank you!!!!!!

[mixelpixel]

Sorry, but I know nothing of Windows batch files (*.bat).

Instead of this:
@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/bundle" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

Do we want this:
@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

or

@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dp0ruby.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

or

@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
ECHO.This version of Ruby has not been built with support for Windows 95/98/Me.
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

[mixelpixel]

I also ask because in addition to the ruby.exe installed from http://railsinstaller.org/en
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]
installed at C;/RailsInstaller/bin/

I also have more recent ruby.exe from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x64-mingw32]
installed at C:/Ruby23-x64/bin/
and need to use it in conjunction with gems that require this newer version.

Will I need to also modify the .bat files in Ruby 2.3.?

Of note, there are only two:
setrbvars.bat
rake.bat

and rake.bat read:
@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
ECHO.This version of Ruby has not been built with support for Windows 95/98/Me.
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

[giathanhphat]

it's work. Thank so much, jayantbh.

[sundoze]

Go into C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0. Change all contents in the .bat files from this:
@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/tilt" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

Delete that and paste in the text below:

@echo OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
ECHO.This version of Ruby has not been built with support for Windows 95/98/Me.
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"%~dp0ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*

[RyanSpears]

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I did not have to worry about any of the above when I followed the following to install ruby and rails on Windows. http://railsinstallfest.org/guides/installfest/rails_on_windows/

[anakinsam]

try to reinstall rails
using command
c:\sites>gem install rails

[ExpressyCode]

Thanks alot!

I opened C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.3.0\bin\rails.bat with Sublime Text and replaced all @"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" with @"%~dp0ruby.exe" works perfect now.

[JenerikMind]

Used vinaymopidevi's updated Rails.bat, re-ran the batch file and fixed it up in a jiffy. Fantastic.

[Adilkemo]

fixing rails problem on windwos 7, 8, 10:

I have been faced a lot of problems while I'm trying to run rails on my system, I try many solutions to solve, but all comes under failed. So, now I got one solution work good on my system, I recommend you to try this with steps it may can help you too.

Download the "rubyinstall" and run on your System, Then Download "Devekite" for ruby extract on folder “C:\RubyDevKit“ after you do this.

Now come to Command ruby type:
C:\Users>cd..
C:>cd C:\RubyDevKit
C:\RubyDevKit>chcp 1252
C:\RubyDevKit>ruby dk.rb init
C:\RubyDevKit>ruby dk.rb install
C:\RubyDevKit>gem install rails --version 5.0.0
C:\RubyDevKit>rails -v
C:\RubyDevKit>cd..
C:>cd [folder_name]
C:[folder_name]>rails new sample_app
C:[folder_name]>bundle install
C:[folder_name]>rails server or rails s

[nabucodonosor7]

muchas gracias me ayudaron muchisimo