From 70f2f981503d4f08b48ae0a05cf0e69308e1aba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew White Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 19:18:00 +0100 Subject: 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. --- guides/source/getting_started.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'guides/source/getting_started.md') 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`. -- cgit v1.2.3