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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hobousers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- Thanks, - Owen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
