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| author | Guillermo Iguaran <guilleiguaran@gmail.com> | 2012-01-13 10:51:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Guillermo Iguaran <guilleiguaran@gmail.com> | 2012-01-13 10:51:53 -0500 |
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Getting Started Guide: Update reference about JavaScript runtimes
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile index a36f84e9fd..63e0173e3f 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -447,7 +447,13 @@ start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running: $ rails server </shell> -TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and the absence of a runtime will give you an +execjs+ error. Usually Mac OS X and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. +therubyracer+ and +therubyrhino+ are the commonly used runtimes for Ruby and JRuby respectively. You can also investigate a list of runtimes at "ExecJS":https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs. +TIP: Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript requires a JavaScript runtime and +the absence of a runtime will give you an +execjs+ error. Usually Mac OS X +and Windows come with a JavaScript runtime installed. +therubyracer+ gem is +added commented to Gemfile for new apps and you can uncomment if you need it. ++therubyrhino+ is the recommended runtime for JRuby users and is added by default +to Gemfile in apps generated under JRuby. You can investigate about all the +supported runtimes at "ExecJS":https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme. This will fire up an instance of the WEBrick web server by default (Rails can also use several other web servers). To see your application in action, open a |