How to install Ruby on Rails with mysql and get it working, a step by step guide?

Question

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, on

Answer 1

I like Aptana Studio 3 for developping with RoR on Windows 7. The book "Agile Web Development with Rails" is also full of good advices.

Here are the steps I followed:

1- Installing Ruby via RubyInstaller

2- Install MySQL (follow @Reuben Mallaby instructions)

3- Install Rails

With the Built-in Terminal, make dev' easy. You should take a look: Aptana Studio

Answer 2

To setup Rails on windows, just download and click:

http://railsinstaller.org/

Answer 3

Take a look at http://rubyinstaller.org/ it should get you up and running.

Answer 4

This is basically what I do to install on Windows 7:

• Download and install latest mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
• Install Ruby http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ (check the box to update PATH)
• Install Ruby Devkit http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ (for example extract to C:\DevKit)

• 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