On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Chris Cann < [email protected]> wrote:
> > I have found the solution for setting up a Ruby 1.9.1 environment with > rails alongside another ruby and rails environment in a Windows Vista > environment. > > Step 1. Download the Ruby 1.9.1 binaries for windows and copy into a > directory. I have called mine c:\ruby191. > > Step 2. Add c:\ruby191\bin to the path statement > > Step 3. Download the latest version of rubygems, 1.3.1 in my case. > Actually, rubygems comes with ruby 1.9.1. Thus, it's not a seperate install as it was in previous releases of Ruby. > > Step 4. Install gems 1.3.1 Open Command Prompt, go to wherever you have > downloaded rubygems-1.3.1 is and enter c:\ruby191\bin\ruby setup.rb. > This should load gems into your ruby191 environment. Gems is used as an > installer in the ruby world. > > > Step 5. Download zlib, I had two goes at this to get it right. > http://www.zlib.net/ is the website. Once you have downloaded it copy > zlib1.dll to c:\Windows\System32\ and rename it to zlib.dll. You may > have to reboot at this stage to get the rest of it to work. If you get > the wrong version you will get a segmentation error in the next step. > > Step 6. go to c:\ruby191\bin\ in command prompt and type "gem install > rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org/"; to download rails 2.3.0 > RC1. See http://rubyonrails.org for these instructions as it "edge" > rails. > > Step 7. I then created a new project using NetBeans 6.5, and it seemed > to have worked, it recognised the right version of ruby and rails, (it > sould work if you do it the normal way with the command prompt). I have > not done anything in the project yet but will update you with any issues > I encounter. It has taken many hours to get to this stage. > > Unfortunately windows users are in the minority with ruby/rails users so > you will need to learn how to install binaries and rails as the bloke > who used to write the windows loaders has given up doing it. I could not > find any documentation on how to load ruby binaries and rails or any > other framework environments in one document. It took me a while to get > this far and I am not sure if I have done it correctly. I will let you > know. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
