rake db:create - Could not find a JavaScript runtime

Question

Here is the error I get:

sergio@sergio-VirtualBox:~/blog$ rake db:create
rake aborted!
Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/ex         


        

Answer 1

There are several fairly similar options such rubytheracer, node and execjs.

rubytheracer has fallen out of favor due to its code size. Vendors such as Heroku (for rails) actively discourage it.

I currently recommend node.js

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