Installing PHP scripts usually amounts to this:
Download > Extract > Upload > Point browser to a URL e.g. domain/app/installer > Provide database and other info > All done!

Perhaps it would help you answer if I provide the following info:
Ruby Gems installed: http://community.godaddy.com/help/1373/installed-ruby-gems

Klymene DotNet wrote:

Installing PHP scripts usually amounts to this:
Download > Extract > Upload > Point browser to a URL e.g. domain/app/installer > Provide database and other info > All done!

Rails apps work differently from php apps, and the installation doesn't work like that sorry. (as a side-note: rails is a web application framework, php is "just" a script language, so php would be more like ruby and rails would be like cakephp in the php world).

Klymene DotNet wrote:

I am using Windows shared hosting on godaddy and would like to install Chili.

Please can anyone help with some simple installtion instructions? I checked the documentation, but there is none for windows installtion. Also, the documentation seems quite complicated.

Mmh, you're trying to combine 2 difficult things in the rails world: windows and godaddy :-/ Any chance you could rather use either a linux hoster, preferably one that also explicitly supports rails, or if you don't have the experience to install rails apps even a hosted ChiliProject/Redmine?

Klymene DotNet wrote:

Perhaps it would help you answer if I provide the following info:
Ruby Gems installed: http://community.godaddy.com/help/1373/installed-ruby-gems

I had a look at the list, an either the page is outdated, or the gems that are installed on godaddy are very very old (example: rails 1.1 is installed, just released is rails 3.1…), so it will be that much more difficult to get the right versions installed, and that looks like a list of gems installed on a linux host, not a windows one.

According to this page godaddy's windows shared hosting doesn't have RoR, so it does not seem you will be able to do this.

Actually godaddy differentiate between shared hosting and 4GH hosting, which is purely a marketing distinction. I am on Windows 4GH which supports Ruby on Rails applications.

To deploy Ruby apps, you go to domain.com/_h_admin_/index.php, log in, then in the Ruby tab in create Rails directory section type in name of directory and click Create. Then you upload the application into that directory. That's for generic Ruby apps.

I've done that much for Chili. Don't know what to do next.

My account has SSH enabled, and I just downloaded Tunnelier, though I have never used SSH before.

Felix Schäfer wrote:

Klymene DotNet wrote:

Download > Extract > Upload > Point browser to a URL e.g. domain/app/installer > Provide database and other info > All done!

rails is a web application framework, php is "just" a script language, so php would be more like ruby and rails would be like cakephp in the php world).

I understand. I installed (Menalto) Gallery 3, which is built using Kohana (a web application framework that uses PHP), and it seemed to install the exact same way.

I do get your point about Ruby working differently, and that's fine. But unfortunately all directions I have seen so far seem quite complex to read, understand and do...I wish there's something that explains the installation as simply as the PHP installation above...even if it is a different process...