I’ve just started on the book. I am going to try to skip the bin/setup step completely.
First thing I plan to do is comment out any gems in the Gemfile which I do not already have installed. For the Gems I do already have installed I plan to set the specific gem version in the Gemfile. Then I’ll run bundle install. Of course, I’ve already created a Git repo! After all that I’ll try running rails server and see where that gets me. I just have to do it the hard way.
I suspect there are gems in the Gemfile which are not needed at all.