From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T21:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't install Mongrel and My SQL gem on Windows XP 64 bit

On Aug 3, 5:31 am, Serguei Cambour <s.camb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no access to the Internet to be able to install all needed gems,
> so I downloaded them one by one and put to a local folder:
>
> - cgi_multipart_eof_fix-2.5.0.gem,
> - fastthread-1.0.7.gem,
> - gem_plugin-0.2.3.gem
> - json-1.1.9.gem
> - json_pure-1.1.9.gem
> - mongrel-1.1.5.gem
> - needle-1.3.0.gem
> - net-scp-1.0.2.gem
> - net-ssh-1.1.4.gem
> - net-ssh-2.0.15.gem
> - rack-1.0.1.gem
> - rails-2.3.4.gem
> - actionmailer-2.3.4.gem
> - actionpack-2.3.4.gem
> - activerecord-2.3.4.gem
> - activeresource-2.3.4.gem
> - activesupport-2.3.4.gem
> - rake-0.8.7.gem
> - mysql-2.8.1.gem
>
>  ...
>
> So no way to install the 2 essential for me gems: mysql and mongrel.
> Does anybody have an idea how to resolve these problems?
>

For you to avoid triggering the gem compilation process, you need to
download already compiled binaries.

Instead of mysql-2.8.1.gem you need to download mysql-2.8.1-x86-
mswin32-60.gem

x86-mswin32-60 and x86-mswin32 are the gem platform that identifies
your Ruby installation.

You can find these gems in the RubyGems website and download from
there:

http://rubygems.org/gems/mongrel/versions/1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60
http://rubygems.org/gems/mysql/versions/2.8.1-x86-mswin32

Please note that you will also need any MySQL 5.0.x, preferable the
noinstall packages, as you need a 32bits version of libmysql.dll

You can find similar details in the RubyInstaller wiki page:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tutorials

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena