Comments on: RubyInstaller: Getting Started with Rails and MySQL

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:41:08 +0000

@Bond: I promised a followup with instructions about compiling the mysql-ruby bindings using DevKit. I'm working on updating RubyInstaller right now, but will do the tutorial soon.

By: Bond

Bond — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:34:44 +0000

Thanks Lui, You’ve done Very good job. But I wonder where can I find your help in installing RoR with MySQL 5.1……

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By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:19:02 +0000

Thanks Luis for taking the time and making the effort to make all this possible. As a complete noob I finally have Ruby on Rails working on XP.

An old installation of mysql 5.1.3 left some files after uninstalling it before installing 5.0.88. Once I deleted them, I ran into a problem because I used a password in the mysql setup step. This should have been no big deal, but when I edited the password field in database.yml, I didn’t leave a space between password: and beginning of password. Some hair pulling later and I now have rails talking to mysql.

Hope this might help someone in future… leaving out the space in the password line will cause syntax error on line 24, col 2: ‘host: http://localhost’; Its not a problem with that line of database.yml, but the password line before. Leave out the space, and it won’t work.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:22:07 +0000

thanks so much, i have been trying to get RoR working for a couple of days before I came across this, now I’m all set.

By: Randall Sexton

Randall Sexton — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:20:55 +0000

I just want to say thanks. Installing MySQL 5.1 was my first mistake. I really appreciate this post – you saved me a lot of time. Regards.

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:34:26 +0000

@Dan: All the segmentation faults in relation to MySQL are because the internals of libmysql.dll You need to check if either in system32 or any other folder in your PATH the above mentioned DLL is from a different version.

There is no Voodoo fixes, the root and the solution is the ones I commented:

Do not mix different versions of MySQL with your gem
Ensure you have a clean PATH free of other libmysql.dll files

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:32:51 +0000

Followed this to the letter and still getting this error:
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:585: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i386-mswin32]

Any ideas? While we’re at it… I’ve seen lots of posts for this segmentation error using MySQL on Windows and various voodoo fixes, but has anyone actually figured out what the root problem is?

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DEV_MEM.dump_to(:blog) - Multimedia systems blog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:12:42 +0000

MySQL/Ruby 2.8.1 Released!…

I’m happy to announce the release of MySQL Ruby bindings version 2.8.1
This release is based on my GitHub fork from original Kevin Williams work.
For those who are not aware, Kevin’s gem is a Gem package of tmtm mysql-ruby bindings at RubyF…