Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
With mysql2 now working on Windows here’s a small update to my hacked together Rails on Windows installer. I also took the opportunity to update the Rails to 3.0.1.
Also replaced the libmysql.dll with the one from MariaDB. That should probably be enough to keep the Oracle lawyers at bay…
Download Rails For (the) Windows v0.2
latest version is v0.4. grab it here
Below is a screenshot of AWStats showing a list of requests which caused 404 errors for bryanbibat.net for the month of October.
Sure, security by obscurity isn’t the best way of avoiding this, but at least you’re not making things too easy for hackers.
One of the questions raised during the last Rails training course I held was “Can Ruby on Rails work with XAMPP?”
With this new version of Rails FTW, the answer to that question is YES.
Download Rails For (the) Windows v0.1
latest version is v0.4. grab it here
OK, so this version doesn’t install mod_rails on XAMPP, but it does allow you to get around the headaches involved in making Rails 3 work with MySQL on Windows.
Here’s a basic rundown of the changes from the last installer:
Rundown of the quick blog app demo using this installer below the cut.
Continue reading “Rails FTW, now with MySQL support!”
Back in college, we Computer Science guys had the distinction of having the second highest number of Math related classes in the university (BS Math obviously comes first). Given what I said about college education in a recent post, you might think that I would’ve preferred if the curriculum didn’t have those classes, and instead added classes on web development and design patterns.
I actually think otherwise.
Continue reading “Advanced Math and Software Development”
Second Rails post of the week. I don’t really mind since it’s just going to be a small post and would let me reach my 2 post per week quota this early.
Remember that post about Ruby on Windows? Well, one thing led to another and PhRUG thought it was a good idea to fork the RubyInstaller to create an installer which includes everything one needs to create a Rails 3 app (Ruby + Rails + SQLite). Being the sneaky guy I am, I decided to create a proof of concept installer by hacking away at the RubyInstaller source code.
Here’s that installer: Rails For (the) Windows, version 0 (edit: latest version is v0.4. grab it here)
With this installer, you can create Rails apps in just a few steps:
From there, you can now create the 5-command rails app:
C:\Users\me> rails new blog C:\Users\me> cd blog C:\Users\me\blog> rails generate scaffold entry subject:string content:text C:\Users\me\blog> rake db:migrate C:\Users\me\blog> rails server
You may have to unblock ruby in the firewall prompt to make the server work.
Open http://localhost:3000/entries to see your new app.
We still have a long way to go before we could supercede InstantRails, but this little hack job looks promising. Luis Lavena, a main contributor to RubyInstaller, even approves of this venture. Maybe later we could move on to other Ruby frameworks… Merb FTW or Sinatra FTW anyone?