I am not a Windows fanboy but sometime I have to use it. Here is my current Ruby on Rails environment setup on Windows 7.
Since I dealing with console (Command Prompt) a lot, so before I setup Ruby and Rails, I install these 2 nifty tools first.
Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.
Get it here.
I like colored console output mainly because I often dealing with log files. ANSICON is a tool that provide those colors.
Here is how I install it
The last command you run will install ansicon permanently. To uninstall ansicon,
simply close any programs that currently using it and run ansicon -u from the Command Prompt.
Now the Ruby part. In summary, I install the 1.8.7 version first, then pik the Ruby version manager and then the Ruby Development Kit.
Download and run rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p334.exe, install Ruby in their default folder C:\Ruby187 and don’t forget to check ‘Add Ruby executables to your PATH’.
Open up a Console and execute
ruby -v
and you should get
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i386-mingw32]
First, you want to update your gem
gem update --system
I usually don’t need ri and rdoc from the installed gems so I disabled it by default. Create a file named .gemrc in your home directory
C:\Users\YourUserName
with the following content
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
Now install pik
gem install pik
Read the rest of the installation manual here
Installing native gem has never been easy for Windows people, until DevKit came in into the scene. Follow the detailed instruction here.
Download DevKit and extract to C:\DevKit then from a Console
cd C:\DevKit
ruby dk.rb init
Test your installation by installing rdiscount gem
gem install rdiscount --platform=ruby
rdiscount should installed correctly
ruby -rubygems -e "require 'rdiscount'; puts RDiscount.new('**Hello RubyInstaller**').to_html
you should see
<p><strong>Hello RubyInstaller</strong></p>
No suprise that you will also need MySQL on your Windows setup. I use XAMPP. To connect your Rails app to MySQL you will need mysql2 gem. This is how to install mysql2 on Windows 7 using XAMPP
gem install mysql2 -- --with-mysql-include=C:\xampp\mysql\include --with-mysql-lib=C:\xampp\mysql\lib\opt
Now you are ready to build the next big thing in web application industry using Rails right from your Windows box.
A bit late though..here we go.
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git clone git://github.com/adamhunter/wp-cap.git my-wordpressCopy your WordPress files to my-wordpress/public so you will have
my-wordpress/
├── config
└── public
├── wp-admin
├── wp-content
└── wp-includes
You want to point your WordPress domain to my-wordpress/public
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my-wordpress/
├── Capfile
├── config
│ ├── deploy.rb
│ └── wp-config-sample.php
├── public
│ ├── index.php
│ ├── license.txt
│ ├── readme.html
│ ├── wp-activate.php
│ ├── ...
Now make sure your WordPress installation is good to go
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