Please take a look at our book "Rapid Rails with Hobo" .  We have very
detailed Windows installation instructions in Chapter 2.

http://hobocentral.net/books/

Thanks,

Owen

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:26 AM, MartOn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I do not installation time on Windows is included in those 2 hours :-D
> Based on my experience, rails on windows always requires a bit "more"
> than for instance osx.
>
> But if you want something simple up and running that normally works
> out of the box, then try our the the RubyStack installer from Bitnami.
> http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack.
> Or choose the redmine stack, http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine. then
> you have a project/bugtracker app as well preinstalled.
>
> SQL are always a pain to get in. Also MySQL is a bit tricky on
> Windows, since latest MySQL server for windows, have a sql.dll library
> file that is incompatible with ruby 1.8.7. So you have to add a
> earlier version dll.
>
> I agree that postgre is best, but for rapid deployment, SQLite is very
> handy.
> My normal recommendation is to use SQlite when prototyping
> application. Once you see that database model finalizes, move to
> postgre or other SQL server.
>
> As for your problem:
> - Do a netstat on your windows machine to see if server even has
> created anything listening ports.
> - Have you tried an empty rails app and see if that works?
>  rails myapp + cd myapp + ruby script/server
>  then maybe scaffolding one model and test:
>  ruby script/generate scaffold post title:string body:text
>  rake db:migrate
>  ruby script/server
>  -> http://0.0.0.0:3000/posts
> - You may try to start the rails server with mongrel.
>  gem install mongrel
>  then script/server will pick mongrel instead. Maybe mongrel gives
> you a better error message.
>
> /MartOn
>
>
> /MartOn
>
> On Feb 28, 10:17 pm, Wildman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm taking a fresh look at ror and hobo after a couple of years. The
> > "Hobo in Two Minutes" tutorial on the hobo website is not working for
> > me and I'd like some help with that. Maybe someone involved with the
> > hobo project will take a look at the tutorial, if it needs revision.
> >
> > First it seems to be true that rails no longer uses mysql as the
> > default db? That's an interesting change...postgres would be my
> > preferred db in any case, if I decide to pursue ror and or hobo.
> >
> > I'm on windows xp. I used the windows installer to get ruby 1.8.7 on
> > the box. Then gem install rails. Then gem install hobo.
> >
> > The "Hobo in Two Minutes" tutorial seems to fall apart because sqlite
> > is not installed automatically. Maybe that's already understood by
> > everyone. I think I got sqlite 3 installed after some struggling - the
> > dll and def go into ruby\bin, and then gem install sqlite3-ruby. That
> > generates a heap of error messages like "No definition for
> > _wrap_new_CallbackData" but apparently that's mostly about the build
> > in documentation?
> >
> > So then I go back and delete the thingybob folder and start the
> > tutuorial again. As far as I can tell there are not errors. But when I
> > issue
> >
> > ruby script/server
> >
> > and then browse tohttp://localhost:3000, it just sits there with
> > 'waiting forhttp://localhost:3000'in the status bar, forever.
> >
> > Any clues?
>
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