I’m brand new to Ruby and Rails, so sorry if this is a totally ridiculous question. The tutorial book that I’m reading says that I should be able to launch a Gemfile in Sublime Text directly from the command prompt using the subl Gemfile command. When I try this, I get an error that says “subl is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file”.

I am in the right directory where the Gemfile is located.
Ruby is definitely installed and I am using the command prompt with Ruby and Rails.
Some searches online that I looked through mentioned something about having to add Sublime to the path…not sure if this would help or how to do this.
I initially had Vim as a text editor, and it would launch by itself from the command prompt. I uninstalled Vim after finding Sublime, so that may have something to do with the problem.

I can always go to Sublime Text manually and open the Gemfile, but I hate not understanding why something isn’t working as expected. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Hey, I’m a beginner with Rails (and programming) too and had this same issue which I have now resolved. There’s 2 things I had to do.
Note: Windows 7 64 bit, Sublime Text 2 beta.

1. Add the Sublime directory to the windows PATH
2. I think ‘subl’ is a Mac-only command. For Windows it’s ‘sublime_text’

To add Sublime to the PATH:

1. Right click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variable
2. Under ‘System Variables’ select variable: Path and hit ‘Edit’.
3. At the end of the ‘Variable value’ text field, add a semicolon and enter the Sublime Text directory (for me it was ‘C:\Sublime Text 2’ but the default is C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2)
4. OK, OK, OK

Then, in the prompt go to the appropriate directory and try ‘sublime_text .’

Thanks @rockxwl…I gave it a shot but it’s a no go. It might be a Win Vista thing (I don’t think so). Maybe I should try Sublime Text 2.

Add the path and then just rename the sublime_text.exe to subl.exe and you will be ready to go

I have got the same problem. Real helps, thank u:grinning: