MySQL 5.5 / 5.1 + Ruby on Rails Windows install

Details: Written by Svend Gundestrup; Category: Ruby on Rails; Published: 04 March 2011; Hits: 4510

1) Install Ruby on Rails

2) do "gem install mysql"

3) Install the MySQL server version of your choise

4) Don't copy the libmysql.dll from your mysql dir to your ruby/bin dir.

Copy the libmysql.dll from

to your ruby/bin dir.

5) start programming in RoR