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| author | schneems <richard.schneeman@gmail.com> | 2012-10-01 20:33:27 -0400 |
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| committer | schneems <richard.schneeman@gmail.com> | 2012-10-02 11:31:23 -0400 |
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Explain that command line commands have $
This was extremely confusing to new programmers, also different operating systems call the command line something different
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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 2cce1b9b07..563cee6ad2 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ TIP: The examples below use # and $ to denote superuser and regular user termina ### Installing Rails +Open up a command line prompt. On a mac this is called terminal, on windows it is called command prompt. Any commands prefaced with a dollar sign `$` should be run in the command line. Verify sure you have a current version of Ruby installed: + +```bash +$ ruby -v +ruby 1.9.3p194 +``` + To install Rails, use the `gem install` command provided by RubyGems: ```bash |