Why doesn't “rails s” work from the app directory?

Question

I\'m in my app folder, but the command rails s is not working. I read through quite a few posts on Stack Overflow, and most of them seem to be from users who ar

Answer 1

Possible reasons:

• you are not in a directory that contains a full rails app
• your bin directory might me empty, try to run rake rails:update:bin (for Rails 4) or rails app:update:bin (Rails 5)