Ruby on Rails on windows with mysql

     

      This is basically what I do to install on Windows XP:

• Download and install latest mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
• Install Ruby http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ (check the box to update PATH)
• Install Ruby Devkit http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ (for example extract to C:\DevKit)
• Setup Devkit
  

  cd [MY_DEVKIT_INSTALL_DIR]
  ruby dk.rb init
  ruby dk.rb install
  

• Copy libmysql.dll from your mysql/bin install to C:\Ruby192\bin
  

  gem install rails
  gem install mysql2 -v 0.2.6
  rails new my_test_app -d mysql