Ruby on Rails on WAMP

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Hi Elvis

The fastest way to do RoR is to use InstantRails

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Elvis Parsley wrote:

Thanks,

But I read somewhere that installing more than one mysql will not work. What worries me to install InstantRails will confrict with my present other installation.

How to avoid it??    Installing more than one MySQL works. It's just that you will need to make sure that they start on different ports. In the case of Instantrails, in the directory X:\InstantRails\mysql there is a file called my.ini - add a line like this to it: port=3307

Note that 3306 is the default MySQL port; it must be set differently here for the one that you want to launch on a different port.

That said, your Rails application will need to be adjusted to work with this. You will need to change config/database.yml to include the port number in it. You will need to do something like this: development:   adapter: mysql   database: app_development   username: root   password:   host: localhost   port: 3307

(note the port line)

Cheers Mohit.

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Elvis Parsley wrote:

Thanks Mohit for your tips.

Does having two apache create any problem or any conflicts?

I don't use Apache while I'm doing development. So, I usually don't start the Apache server on the InstantRails. I use webrick/ mongrel (got by typing ruby script\server in the Rails application's directory) and that starts on Port 3000.

I guess it should be possible to start 2 Apache servers as long as they run on different ports. But, I haven't tried that, so I'm not sure.

Cheers Mohit.

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Thanks,

But I read somewhere that installing more than one mysql will not work. What worries me to install InstantRails will confrict with my present other installation.

How to avoid it??

Ditch instant rails and use the one-click Ruby installer with your current mysql install (or preferrably postgresql or sqlite3..).

Apache isn't part of the RoR development environment anyway, and would only give you head aches. All you need to work with Rails is Ruby, RubyGems, a database and the rails- and db-connection gems.

If you want the experience of setting up a 'production' environment, use your existing apache install for that too. Stick with standalone webrick or mongrel for development, though.

Regards, Isak

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Isak Hansen wrote:

Thanks,

But I read somewhere that installing more than one mysql will not work. What worries me to install InstantRails will confrict with my present other installation.

How to avoid it??

Ditch instant rails and use the one-click Ruby installer with your current mysql install (or preferrably postgresql or sqlite3..).

Apache isn't part of the RoR development environment anyway, and would only give you head aches. All you need to work with Rails is Ruby, RubyGems, a database and the rails- and db-connection gems.

If you want the experience of setting up a 'production' environment, use your existing apache install for that too. Stick with standalone webrick or mongrel for development, though.

Regards, Isak

I think the whole point of this thread was to ask how to do what you just said. I am having the same issue. I use WAMP for a couple of sites that are currently live on the net and would like to program one in Rails using the same files. I did the one click installer as well as installing gems and rails and I'm still having some issues with my applications. Is there a file where I need to set ruby to use that part of Wamp even though I'm running mongrel too...