From: Robo <robo@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T23:57:34+09:00
Subject: Getting Rails to work on WinXP

I'm trying to the 10min Setup video tutorial, but the video's slightly 
outdated, and my environment's a bit different.

I've got Ruby 1.8, WinXP, Apache2, and MySQL working. I installed Rails 
via RubyGems, and I want to use it without virtual hosts, but simply as 
a subfolder in my regular www directory.

The provided Apache conf file assumes I'm using VirtualHost, so I 
modified it to:

<Directory /blog/public>
   Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride all
   Allow from all
   Order allow,deny
</Directory>

Because I used gems, the default files are not actually in the www 
directory like in the video. I've manually copied the folder across for now.

Inside E:\www\blog, I ran "ruby script/new_controller Weblog", and it 
created the weblog_controller.rb file in E:\www\app\controllers\, but 
when I go to http://localhost/blog/weblog, I simply get a 404 error, 
which I half expected, 'cos there's no weblog folder in the blog folder. 
In the video it seems to execute the controller scripts, but I can't get 
that to work.

So, say I was to start a project from scratch in my environment, how 
would I do it, to get Rails to print my hello world?

Robo