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rails --version command not working on Windows

I installed Rails from http://railsinstaller.org/en on my Windows 7 desktop and the installation went fine. However, after installation when I do:

C:\Sites>rails --version
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Sites>ruby -v
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]

C:\Sites>gem -v
2.4.5.1
Solution

  • After much digging around I found errors in a few of the *.bat (nokogiri, scss,...) files located in C:\path\to\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.2.0\bin.

    This was the content of rails.bat:

    @ECHO OFF
IF NOT "%~f0" == "~f0" GOTO :WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "C:/Users/emachnic/GitRepos/railsinstaller-windows/stage/Ruby2.2.0/bin/rails" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
GOTO :EOF
:WinNT
@"C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\ruby.exe" "%~dpn0" %*`

    After removing the hardcoded paths C:\Users\emachnic\GitRepos\railsinstaller-windows\stage\Ruby2.2.0\bin\, the rails command reports the correct version:

    C:\path\to\RailsInstaller3.2\Ruby2.2.0\bin>rails -v
Rails 4.2.5.1