How to install rails 6.0

Yet to start with rails 6.0, Install it right now and build awesome web apps.

Rails 6 comes with a lot of new features like Action Mailer, Multiple databases, parallel test and more. If you haven’t started yet with the rails 6.0 then install it right now and explore its awesome features.

If you are using ubuntu then use the following commands to install rails 6.0.

Install ruby version 2.6.2

$rvm install 2.6.2

Install rails 6.0

$gem install rails -v 6.0.0.rc1

Rails have installed now. Please create a new application using the following command.

$rails new testApp

Now change directory to newly created application’s directory.

$cd testApp

Now, Start the rail server

$rails server

If you are getting following error while starting the rails server

error: Webpacker configuration file not found

Then use the following commands to install webpacker.

$curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

$echo ‘deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

$sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn

$rails webpacker:install

Make sure all packages are up to date using the following command.

$yarn install --check-files

Now start your rails server once again and it should not throw an error.

$rails sever

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