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

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