Cygwin Rails Command Failure

Posted by Andrew Premdas Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:10:00 GMT

Running Rails myproj on Cygwin doesn't work at the moment. This is due to a bug in Ruby that has been fixed, but hasn't yet made the Cygwin project.

At the moment the workaround is to run the Rails command in a windows command prompt. This sux, but only a little bit really. Alternatives focus around patching and rebuilding ruby on cygwin. Don't really want to do this.

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Rails Ticket

Cygwin Rails and MySQL

Posted by Andrew Premdas Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:25:00 GMT

Many others have done this, so thanks to those who provided the info used here.

Gem Installation

When setting up gems unset the environment variable RUBYOPT RUBYOPT=""

Rails Installation

Don't need --include-dependencies switch any more, they're installed by default.

MySQL

In Cygwin you'll want to install the MySQL gem. This needs the MySql libraries/source in order to build, so you need to download the source. Then run 

./configure
make install

This failed at first, trying to resolve by

  • installing g++ using cygwin setup

Now you have what you need to install the MySql gem. gem install mysql

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