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Ruby on Rails + Cygwin + Windows Vista

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Uploaded by on Dec 2, 2008

In this RoR + Cygwin + Vista video demonstration, I show you how EASY it is to setup a basic Ruby on Rails installation using the Cygwin "Linux-like" environment on Microsoft Windows Vista in the same manner as seen at http://rubyonrails.com/down -that touts: "Get Ruby on Rails in no time" with Ruby, the language, and RubyGems, the package manager.

-ReNoirIN

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  • you use eee pc ?

  • No, I don't know much about those small computers, but if it's Linux you should be able to install RoR on it using the Linux install procedure, and if Windows XP I imagine you should be able to do Cygwin install as my tutorial illustrates (depending on disk space available, etc)

  • Amazing video. Thanks! Did you install SQLite to have a backend ? Can you tell us why SQLite was installed ?

  • I installed sqlite in order to do the minimal installation without errors. If you don't install sqlite, you'd have errors just getting the Welcome page to come up. So for the purpose of doing the most minimal amount of required things; was my goal in getting RoR setup within Cygwin

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  • Would you say that the performance for rails, specifically running rake tasks and webrick is faster that using the windows command line?

  • @curemymind Thanks this fixed it for me too (Vista Ultimate SP2). Otherwise a great video!

  • It worked, enough said.

  • when i did the test in rails it was wrong and i couldn't use test. But then i read the website and to make structure it was just "rails new path_and_name" or just the name instead of the path then you can sd into it. After that the script/server in the new version its actually "rails server" and there you have it ull get a firewall from windows im using windows 7 by the way. And the rest is as the video says :) which by the way is awesome :D.

  • sweetness i did this in terminator tho. i like the terminator better then what cygwin offers simply b/c it lets windows copy from mouse hahahah i know im lazy. :P very nice job video :) it was really easy i feel like im in linux in windows :D yay for me:)

  • I get stuck after I create a new folder/project called hello_world. I can't execute script/server and the rooting to load WEBrick. Advice appreciated...thanks.

  • when i type "gems install rails sqlite3-ruby" i get a error... please help me

  • Also plz looked at these screenshots. My installation aren't working. I'm on windows xp. And I followed your tutorial very carefully as you were instructing.

    imagebin . org / 121083

    imagebin . org / 121079

  • $ruby setup.rb

    $ gem install rails sqlite3-ruby

    cygwin warning:

    MS-DOS style patch detected: c:/documents and settings/

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