# Ruby on Rails Impossible Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 22, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373 "2006-07-22T01:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/1 "2006-07-22T01:36:58Z")
Hello, Ruby on Rails still, as I think, very poor with MS Windows. I make the comparison as a PHP user. In some minutes, I have got Apache running PHP easily. In Ruby On Rails, there is no such breeze. I expect in the future, Ruby on Rails is going to offer something like php4apache.dll to make life easier. As I think, There are three things made PHP popular: 1st, The ease of installation 2nd, The complete, detailed and perfect organized documentation 3rd, The variety of free tutorials and resources Conclusion, Ruby on Rails disappointed me. Best Regards, ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/2 "2006-07-22T01:43:39Z")
Said Bakr wrote: > Hello, > Ruby on Rails still, as I think, very poor with MS Windows. I make the > comparison as a PHP user. > In some minutes, I have got Apache running PHP easily. In Ruby On Rails, > there is no such breeze. I expect in the future, Ruby on Rails is going > to offer something like php4apache.dll to make life easier. > As I think, There are three things made PHP popular: > 1st, The ease of installation > 2nd, The complete, detailed and perfect organized documentation > 3rd, The variety of free tutorials and resources > Conclusion, Ruby on Rails disappointed me. > Best Regards, Did you try InstantRails. It makes setup an absolute breeze on Windows and you can be up and running in just a few minutes. If you look through this forum, you will even see that one of the ruby users has taken the time to make a video on how to do it. Sorry you are disappointed. Perhaps a quick glance at InstantRails will change your opinion. Regards, Michael ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/3 "2006-07-22T01:47:10Z")
You setting up a web server app or a local install for dev ? If just development then get InstantRails. You can find it on [rubyforge.com](http://rubyforge.com) Aside from that I remember struggling a bit early back with PHP and Apache. Rails will work. Stuart ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/4 "2006-07-22T01:47:40Z")
Michael wrote: > Did you try InstantRails. It makes setup an absolute breeze on Windows > and you can be up and running in just a few minutes. > > If you look through this forum, you will even see that one of the ruby > users has taken the time to make a video on how to do it. > > Sorry you are disappointed. Perhaps a quick glance at InstantRails will > change your opinion. > > Regards, > > Michael Ok Michael, I will try InstantRails. I hope find InstantRails works with MySQL 4 that I already have. ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/5 "2006-07-22T02:49:11Z")
hi all, i am kinda confused. what’s the difference between gems and plugins. where the engines fit in this picture… bottomline, where’s the [cpan.org](http://cpan.org) of this ruby/rails? thanks -v ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/6 "2006-07-22T03:06:33Z")
Volkan Civelek wrote: > hi all, > i am kinda confused. > what’s the difference between gems and plugins. where the engines fit in > this picture… > bottomline, where’s the [cpan.org](http://cpan.org) of this ruby/rails? > > thanks > -v Engines IS a plugin ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/7 "2006-07-22T01:53:40Z")
It will install a copy of mySQL 4.x (I don’t remember the exact version). You’ll have to do a little reconfigure if you want to use your own copy. Stuart ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/8 "2006-07-22T04:20:43Z")
I’ve used InstantRails on several Windows platforms, with and without an existing MySQL installation. It was easiest for me to change the port on the existing MySQL, leaving InstantRails to run on the default port: 3306. If you don’t, when InstantRails starts up, you will get a message saying that it’s MySQL server didn’t start because of a port conflict. You can configure your rails app to talk to your existing MySQL, the one with InstantRails, or both. Give it a try. -Larry ---
**Author:** ![Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Said\_Bakr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Said_Bakr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-impossible-windows/99373/9 "2006-07-22T05:25:40Z")
On suggestion for the original question: http:// [www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins) is a directory of plugins available for Rails. – Benjamin C. [http://www.bencurtis.com/](http://www.bencurtis.com/) [http://www.tesly.com/](http://www.tesly.com/) – Collaborative test case management [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/) – Resources for the Rails community