Some time ago I managed to get RoR working on Windows XP.
I’ve been trying to get it working on Windows 7 for 2 days but there’s just no way, there’s always a problem, one that google can’t answer, no matter what I try.
Can someone give me a guide or something to get it working on Windows 7 or XP ? Even Ubuntu but I’d rather not go through that maze again.
I figure I’m going to install Windows XP on a virtual machine and start from there.
I need RoR and mysql – what versions, where do I download them from and what steps do I take ?
On a side note, how do you install mysql2 (version < 0.3) on rails 3.0.7 ? Because it automatically tries something over 0.3 which doesn’t work on rails 3.0.7 and if I try the gemfile bundle trick with 0.2.7 I don’t know how to specify configuration options and of course it doesn’t work if I don’t give it the location of mysql lib and include directories.
Also I tried using rails 3.1 beta and everything goes smoothly until I start the server and the website never loads on localhost:3000.
This is basically what I do to install on Windows 7:
Setup Devkit
cd [MY_DEVKIT_INSTALL_DIR]
ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install
Copy libmysql.dll from your mysql/bin install to C:\Ruby192\bin
gem install rails
gem install mysql2 -v 0.2.6
rails new my_test_app -d mysql