# Spree on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spree-on-windows/160038>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spree-on-windows/160038 "2009-02-11T07:54:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![maged](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@maged](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maged)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spree-on-windows/160038/1 "2009-02-11T07:54:17Z")

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hi all , when I tried to run rake db:bootstrap for Spree, I got a weird  
error

rake aborted!

Mysql::Error: Can’t create/write to file  
‘C:\WINDOWS\TEMP#sql\_1b0\_0.MYI’ (Errcode: 13): SHOW FIELDS FROM  
`option_values_variants`

rake aborted!

Invalid escape character syntax: /C:\mydirectory\app\Rakefile/

any ideas?

BTW, obvious but I’m using XP

Thanks

Maged

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**Author:** ![maged](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@maged](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maged)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spree-on-windows/160038/2 "2009-02-11T08:59:38Z")

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you got a problem with slashes / backslashes as directory separators.  
unix uses a slash (and that is what rake expects) while windows uses  
backslashes (which are interpreted as escape-characters).  
i’m not on windows, so i can’t really tell you what to do to fix it,  
but i hope i could point you into the right direction to google a  
solution.