“193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application” bug with a new Rails Application

Question

I have a new rails application which I have created under Windows 7 by going into a directory and typing \"rails newapp\". The creation went fine, and when I access the root

Answer 1

Solved by following the directions on this blog here: http://blog.mmediasys.com/2011/07/07/installing-mysql-on-windows-7-x64-and-using-ruby-with-it/

which involves using the non installer version of the MySQL Connector http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/

I could not get webrick to run on x64 Windows 7 system -- got the same error

"193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application”

If I just replaced the file libmysql.dll (as suggested in posts above), I got a different error.

"Incorrect MySQL client library version!"

My Path set like this: C:\Ruby187\bin;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin;C:\Ruby187\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-3.1.1\bin

(didn't need to change the path again)