My system is perfectly fine, and everything works smoothly & I'm smooth sailing getting even deeper into Ruby! I'm even going to read & watch all the Ruby on Rails books/tutorials that I can find including lynda.com.
If you can't explain something to an old lady then you don't understand it. Plain & simple. And no, like I said before I'm not a programmer, I'm a web developer. Proud to be a layman! I actually like Ruby cos its syntax is more like plain old English! Like I said before, I cannot take wrong advice. Not all advice is good advice... One must learn to separate the good from the bad. I took the advise that led me to the right direction, and ignored the other advice which wasn't helpful to me. That's my call to make, not yours. I found the solution (and not a shortcut) to my problem and that's what counts - nothing you say will change anything. You can stay being a programmer and talk your programming jargon which you don't even understand half of it, if that turns you on - that's your choice, not mine. Now, let me get on with my happy learning and stop wasting my time replying to you. I'm done with my chat here (or, should I say 'terminated my electronic conversation')... On Aug 9, 4:48 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > WalT wrote: > > To all the guys using Windows OS and want to use mysql as your > > database: > > > I went around all the forums of ruby that I could find on the internet > > and I'm glad I got the answer that I was looking for: > > > The path that I was looking for was G:\Ruby\bin. Ignore the wording > > 'add that path to the environment variable called PATH' cos it's just > > not in laymen's term for me. > > You're a programmer now, not a layman. There are things you must learn, > and as Hassan and I have both advised you, *one of the things you must > learn is what your PATH is*. Do not ignore it. Learn to deal with it > properly. > > > > > All I needed to do was to copy the files from G:\Rails\mysql\bin > > directory (windows explorer) to the directory G:\Ruby\bin as they are. > > No! While this kind of works in this particular case, it is a *very > bad* idea: you now have your mySQL binaries mixed up with your Ruby > binaries. God help you. > > And it didn't have to be this way: if you'd actually taken the advice > several of us were giving you, you could have done it right. > > [...] > > > Thanks to all the guys that helped in this forum - just bear in mind > > that some of us are beginners and do not know all the ruby terms so we > > need plain old English to survive ;) > > For the third time: *this had nothing to do with Ruby concepts*. If you > can't be bothered to learn what your PATH environment variable is > (nothing to do with Ruby) and how to set it (nothing to do with Ruby), > then (a) you will most likely screw up your system (as you've done with > your supposed "fix" here) and (b) you have no business trying to > program. > > I hate to be that harsh, but that's the way it is. As a programmer, you > have great power, and you *must* learn to do things correctly so that > you can use that power responsibly. If you're not willing to take 5 > minutes to learn about a rudimentary OS concept such as the PATH, then > you're not ready for the power that programming provides. For your own > sake, stop before you completely screw up your system. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
