Ruby support for Windows has sometimes been a bit shaky. I recommend rubyinstaller.org for a one-click windows installer. It includes all the little libraries and binaries that ruby needs to work properly on windows and it worked well for me.
You will also need to install whichever databases you're going to use which is obviously a bit less smooth on Windows without the assistance of a package manager. In the case of SQLite it should just be a case of downloading the dll and putting it into your ruby\bin folder. After that Rails should just install from the gems. I realise this reply is a little academic as it sounds like you've already solved your installation problems. :) But try rubyinstaller if you have to reinstall at some point. And yes, it is a question of the platform you're using. It seems to me that Windows has generally been a second-class citizen in the Ruby world. Mark On 7 October 2010 07:31, egervari <[email protected]> wrote: > I just installed it and it seems like everything goes smoothly... but > I'm having one hurdle after another installing a new application. I've > had to get various dlls for sqlite, mysql and msvcrt-ruby18, or things > out-right crashed. > > I've had an error where rails though I didn't have rake installed... > but the gem was installed. I had to remove a file called rake.gemspec > and reinstall rake for everything to work. > > I don't mean this to sound bad, but for a framework that claims to > "just work", it certainly has it's share of bugs or hurdles. Maybe > it's just because I run windows 7 64-bit. I dunno :( > > These seem like platform issues to me, an area that Java really does > have a leg up on. At least when you install java... it works :/ > > I'll keep playing with it. I hope after these hurdles, everything will > eventually just work. > > -- > 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.
