Installing Ruby on Rails w/ MySQL on Windows

Published: 23 February 2013
on channel: Jonathan MacDonald
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Latest instructions (as of June 2014):    • Rails on Windows, June 2014 - Part 1/2  

2014/02/10 - these instructions are out of date, please checkout the new instructions here:    • How to install Ruby on Rails on Windo...  

*** Update 4 (2013-10-17)
These instructions are out of date as stated earlier. Please checkout my latest instructions here:    • Rails on Windows, Part 1/4: Ruby  

*** Update 3: For anyone experiencing issues with encoding when running 'ruby dk.rb init', checkout the following:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg...

And again, these instructions are out of date, please checkout my new instructions (linked below).

*** Update 2: It's unlikely you want to follow these instructions as they're out-of-date. Please check out my updated installation instructions here:    • Installing Ruby on Rails 4, Ruby 2.0 ...  

*** Update: Unless you're specifically looking to install Rails 3.2 (Rails 4 is now out) checkout these updated Instructions for installing Rails 4, Ruby 2.0 and the MySQL gem:    • Installing Ruby on Rails 4, Ruby 2.0 ...  

Beginner oriented instructions on how to install Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2 (using the MySQL gem) on Windows 7.

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Note that this video assumes you have the MySQL server installed. Instructions on installing MySQL on Windows can be found here:    • How to install MySQL on Windows 7