Further to the above I decided to start again with a clean install using railsinstaller.
Went through similar issues but on renaming mysql2.rb and not having an old mysql.rb file in the path, I found it was erroring on line 72 of runtime.rb which when I commented out : #Kernel.require file Server started ok -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9c99d10873f99c39ccd5c4b0cf6b7b10%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.