Ruby on Rails Error: Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first

Question

I'm having trouble initializing a new Rails application under

Desktop/rails_projects

. According to another post, I have to empty the affected directory, which prevents me from creating a new project. The post said I'll find

.bundle folder

if I look inside with

ls -a

.

However, the my problems is that I have created rails_projects just before creating a new Rails application, which means there's nothing there. Also, I've tried created another folder under

Desktop/aNewFolder

and same thing happens. Maybe there's a problem with Desktop itself? I'm not sure. I did

ls -a

on

Desktop

but I couldn't find

.bundle folder.

Also, I can't just erase everything in my desktop. That's absurd.

This is what I've got when I tried to do

$rails new first_app

inside

Desktop/rails_projects

:

Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first.

Type 'rails' for help.

And received this when I typed rails:

The most common rails commands are:

 generate    Generate new code (short-cut alias: "g")

 console     Start the Rails console (short-cut alias: "c")

 server      Start the Rails server (short-cut alias: "s")

 dbconsole   Start a console for the database specified in config/database.yml

             (short-cut alias: "db")

 new         Create a new Rails application. "rails new my_app" creates a

             new application called MyApp in "./my_app"



In addition to those, there are:

 application  Generate the Rails application code

 destroy      Undo code generated with "generate" (short-cut alias: "d")

 benchmarker  See how fast a piece of code runs

 profiler     Get profile information from a piece of code

 plugin       Install a plugin

 runner       Run a piece of code in the application environment (short-cut alias: "r")



All commands can be run with -h (or --help) for more information.

Thank you so much for your help!!!

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Answer 1

create a directory under rails_projects first, mkdir first_app, then run your rails new first_app command.

If first_app already exists, remove it first or pick another directory/application name.

Ruby on Rails Error: Can't initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first

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