Getting MySQL 5.0 to work in Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows 7
So, I got MySQL to work for my Ruby on Rails development environment. Let’s be clear about what I actually wanted: Ruby 1.9.1 Rails 2.3.2 Any version of MySQL whatsoever Any way whatsoever to make my up-to-date Ruby on Rails talk to that MySQL I don’t care what version of MySQL. I don’t care if [...]
Actually Installing Ruby on Rails, on Windows 7
OK, so I found out what it is that I have to install for my wonderful Ruby on Rails environment. It’s time to start installing. Keep in mind that much of what I’m doing here is an experiment (and thanks Luis for being so patient with me). I don’t claim to know what works and [...]
Assessing Installing Ruby on Rails, on Windows 7
So I wanted to get up and running with a development system for Ruby on Rails, on my shiny freshly installed Windows 7 machine (so, no development stuff on it as of yet whatsoever). However, the recent Ruby update to 1.9.1 brought such big changes that apparently, many libraries don’t work with it anymore – [...]
Stack Overflow: Solutions for Coders
If you’re a programmer, you know the problem of solution googlability. It’s particularly prominent in mainstream languages (and one of the things I decried in my What’s Wrong with VBA series, as VBA is particularly bad in that respect); you have a problem, you google for it, unless you’re coding in a good awesome well-designed [...]
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