And to chime in... I have same experience that Windows is a suboptimal environment, if not only from the fact that it 90% of the advice for Rails online is referring to *nix (including mac). I would also recommend getting up a simple Ubuntu vm. I tried configuring a Windows Server 2008 recently for rails production env and it was 3 days of complete hell. I had the whole thing done on Ubuntu server in about 1/2 day. Not that I had the same issue as you with the db.
Either that or just install InstantRails for Windows and get productive.... you can always learn to do the install later. On 2 July 2010 14:25, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Digital wrote: > [...] > > And still no luck. There is a larger issue here and not something as > > simple as passwords. I've been fighting this for weeks. My love of rails > > is turning to hate. > > This is probably not a Rails issue as such, so don't start hating Rails > just yet. > > More stuff to try: > > * Do you have the mysql gem installed? (It looks like you do, but...) > * What version of MySQL are you running? (Some people have reported > problems with 5.1; you may want to switch to 5.0.) > > If it were my development setup, though, I'd avoid both MySQL and > Windows entirely. I don't use Windows, but my understanding is that > besides its being a pretty bad OS in general, a lot of Rails tools run > less smoothly on it than on *nix (you can use a *nix VM, though). > Likewise, MySQL is a pretty bad DB in comparison to systems like > PostgreSQL. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
