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Ruby on Rails/Getting Started/Is everything installed?
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If everything was installed correctly you should be able to do the following:
Type irb -v on the command line and see the version number for irb, the interactive Ruby interpreter
What version do you expect to see here??
Type gem -v on the command line and see the version number for RubyGems
What version do you expect to see here??
Type rails -v and the installed Rails version number should be displayed
What version do you expect to see here??
Type rails testapp and a new Rails app should be created in a directory called testapp
Change into the testapp directory and run script/server, launching the built-in Rails server
Open a browser and go to the URL http://localhost:3000. You should see the What should you see here??.
Type rake and the Rails application's tests should run
Will they work out of the box? What is the expected output?