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Setting up Ruby on Rails on Vista

So I bought a new computer this week and of course it’s got Windows Vista on it. For those that I don’t talk to everyday, I use Vista at work, and have been since January.  I have to say that I really do not like this new operating system.  There are some features that I do like it, however, if you do not have at least 2GB of Ram in the computer Vista is SLOW!!!! Currently, I’m barely running anything, Firefox and AIM, and I’m using 75% of my memory! This is pathetic! I’m really seriously considering looking into purchasing an XP license and installing that on here.

Anyways, I haven’t really seen a lot of people that have really tried to install Ruby on Rails on Vista, so today I decided that I wanted to take a chance and see what happened.  I first tried to use InstantRails, however I was unsuccessful about it.  I then decided to just install Ruby/Rails, and MySQL all together on the machine.  This I had no trouble with.  I’m not sure what exactly was going on with InstantRails, but I might try to give it another try later.  I’ll give you some more info later when I get an application actually working correctly on here! :)

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2 Responses to “Setting up Ruby on Rails on Vista”

  1. Richard Harlos Says:
    August 1st, 2007 at 2:59 am

    I just tried installing InstantRails 1.7 on Vista Home and it errored out on me during startup as follows:

    InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables
    InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created
    070801 2:47:41 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0
    Cant’ create IP socket: No such file or directory
    070801 2:47:41 [ERROR] Aborting

    And abort it does. If you feel inspired to try this again, or have any insight into how I might approach this problem from a ‘determined to get InstantRails working under Vista Home’ standpoint, I’d be grateful! :)

  2. Niki Says:
    June 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    Just wanted to point out that Vista doesn’t need all that memory, it just uses it to preload stuff! It’s used as a buffer and as a cache. If you are working with linux, and you do a “free -m” you will see the same. The other day I did this with my arch installation. Only thing open was Firefox, Openbox, and pidign. It was using 1GB of the 4GB. Only thing that means is that it’s caching a lot of stuff.

    Peace

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