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Ruby & Rails with MySql configuration on Windows

Topic : Ruby & Rails with MySql configuration on Windows
Follow bellow instruction for configure Ruby and Rails with MySql DB

1. Download latest version of Ruby from ruby installer
Link :http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

2. Install to your system local drive, C:Ruby2

3. Now Download DevKit
Link :http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

The RubyInstaller Development Kit is a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions such as RDiscount and RedCloth for Ruby on Windows.

4. Install DevKit, follow instruction as mention in below link:
https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

5. Now Install rails
Command : gem install rails

6. Now Download mysql connector “Windows (x86, 32-bit), ZIP Archive”
Link : http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/

7. Extract mysql connector to C:mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32-vs2005

8. Now Install gem for mySql
Command : gem install mysql2 –platform=ruby — –with-mysql-dir=C:mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32-vs2005

9. copy C:mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32-vs2005liblibmysql.dll to C:Ruby193bin folder