Michael Pavling wrote in post #1035507: > On 7 December 2011 04:03, Hassan Schroeder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:24 PM, stephen d. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The bottom line is that the latest version of Ruby, >>> Rails, and MySql do not work together. >> >> >> Apparently it *does* work. >> >> Just sayin' ... > > yes, but sweeping declarative statements are never going to be a good > starting point for taking advice :-/ > > Stephen, how about modifying your assertion thus, which may be a > better place to start reflection: > > "The bottom line is that I can't get the latest version of Ruby, > Rails, and MySql running on Windows" > > > PS in your OP, you say: > "I create the most basic rails project (rails generate demo index, > uncomment the last line of the routs.rb [sic] file), run the sever and > navigate to page and get:" > > ...but you don't mention in that list any changes you made to the > database.yml file.
I appologize and agree. It was the end of two full days of frustrations and I should have been more polite to those who were taking their valuable time to try and help me. I am new to the world of Rails and began by installing all the latest versions of things: Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.1.3, and MySQL 5.5.17 (Windows 7 64 bit). I did a few tutoritals using SQLite and it is indeed very nice. However, I know that I will need to use Rails with MySQL for production, therefore I need to go ahead and get used to it while learning. Coming from the C#/Silverlight development world where things are highly integrated and just work, I'm finding that the promise that Ruby on Rails is fast and fun to be untrue(and I know this will bring much flack.. but its true). I asked my colleque (a very experienced developer as well) to try to do a "hello world" application in rails using MySQL.. after many many hours of installing, reinstalling, reading blogs, etc.. no bananana. Honestly, I find that very disappoining. I will try the detailed advice above (thank you for it) and let you guys know what happens. If i get it working, I will put up a detailed article on a blog so as to save the next poor newbie. However, the fact that it is necessary is truly sad. It is what I hate about open source. -- 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.
