Nice going, Guru. I'll pass on a reference of this to people needing help.
Best wishes, Richard On Dec 20, 4:37 am, the_guru <[email protected]> wrote: > Locally Update InstantRails-2.0-win to support rails 2.2.2. > Before everything I want point something that all the blogs and forums > shows how to install rails from remote server. But this is > > boring for people on the slow side of the internet. Rails is a gem > (meaning this is a package) so we can install rails locally from > > the gem. But we need all the gems to install it locally. > > For ur convenience u can download the rails-2.2.2. zip > fromhttp://rubyonrails.org. Inside the zip u will find > > {vendor/rails/*/pkg} directory here u will get all the gems u need.(* > means railties,activesupport,activerecord etc.) > > Step 1. Setting the environment variable in win XP > Set a path of /ruby/bin > {installed driver}/{ InstantRails-2.0-win" } /ruby/bin > > Step 2. Installing ruby gem 1.3.1 > Extract "rubygems-1.3.1.zip " > Go to the extracted directory from command line > Run : > ruby install.rb > This will install the ruby gem 1.3.1 > Check the version with run : > gem -v > To be sured u can run command: gem update -system > > Step 3. Installing rake 0.8.3 > To install rails-2.2.2 u will need rake 0.8.3 > I couldn't find the gem of rake 0.8.3 > I installed it from internet > Run : > gem install rake -include-dependencies > This update rake �� > > Step 4. Installing rails 2.2.2 > Put all the gems in the {your path}/ruby/bin/ directory > All most done �� > Run command : > gem install rails -include-dependencies -l > The last -l parameter forces the gems to be installed from local > directory > The command will auto install actionmailer,activerecord ..... > Check the version with run : > rails -v > > Step 5. Seeing what is installed > U can see all the gem that are installed in ur system . > Run : > gem list > Warring!!! do not run : > gem cleanup > This cleanup is not necessary > > Problems you may face: > I face a mysql a problem of : missing libmySQL.dll error > This was very annoying. Goto > {your path}/mysql/bin/ > libmySQL.dll > paste it to > {your path}/ruby/bin/ > I guess this will solve the problem. > > This is my first real problem solve post . hope u liked it . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
