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| author | Andrew White <andrew.white@unboxed.co> | 2016-08-05 19:18:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew White <andrew.white@unboxed.co> | 2016-08-05 19:23:39 +0100 |
| commit | 70f2f981503d4f08b48ae0a05cf0e69308e1aba0 (patch) | |
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| parent | b63d532f1ed0770e00183894a9efd7450d8cde82 (diff) | |
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Add note about limitations of Windows Subsystem for Linux
Due to the limited support for inotify (Microsoft/BashOnWindows#216) in
WSL the best thing to do at moment is add a note about skipping spring
and listen when generating your application in the Getting Started guide.
[skip ci]
Fixes #26054.
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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 73dbb2bc40..89b1d3ca03 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ This will create a Rails application called Blog in a `blog` directory and install the gem dependencies that are already mentioned in `Gemfile` using `bundle install`. +NOTE: If you're using Windows Subsystem for Linux then there are currently some +limitations on file system notifications that mean you should disable the `spring` +and `listen` gems which you can do by running `rails new blog --skip-spring --skip-listen`. + TIP: You can see all of the command line options that the Rails application builder accepts by running `rails new -h`. |