From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T05:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows

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I'm doing Rails development on a WinXP box and deploying directly to=20
acceptance and production environments on Linux. Haven't run into any=20
platform issues yet.
The DB is Oracle, though.. I'm not sure if other databases have=20
platform-related concerns.

On 8/31/05, Bennett, Patrick <Patrick.Bennett@inin.com> wrote:
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> The MySQL install was 100% Windows. There was nothing UNIX-y about it,
> nor did I have to alter any environment variables or registry settings.
> MySQL worked out of the box for me on Windows and my Ruby and Ruby On
> Rails apps.
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> Patrick Bennett
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gregarican [mailto:greg.kujawa@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:01 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Re: Ruby on Linux & Windows
> >
> > x1 wrote:
> >
> > > I could not get the mysql to work period on windows.
> > --could on NIX,
> > >but not win32. perhaps it was the version of mysql,
> > compiler, or mysql
> > >module.... Not offering solutions, just voicing my opinion..
> >
> > There are some minor configuration changes and existing
> > enviormental conditions that must be present. For example I
> > know that Windows boxes typically have a TEMP variable set to
> > c:\temp, %windir%\temp, %userprofile%\local settings\temp,
> > etc. But for UNIX-y applications a c:\tmp directory must be
> > created. I recall using a Windows MySQL client/server setup
> > when our company tested out a POS/Inventory product. MySQL
> > pretty much installed out of the box with a couple of tweaks
> > here and there...
> >
> >
> >
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