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@@ -450,11 +450,7 @@ start a web server on your development machine. You can do this by running:
$ rails server
</shell>
-TIP: Some environments require that you install a JavaScript runtime to compile
-CoffeeScript to JavaScript and will give you an +execjs+ error the first time
-you run +rails server+. +therubyracer+ and +therubyrhino+ are 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+ 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.
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