I'm not sure if this is relevant but here goes. You said you are running Vista 32bit (VMware Fusion) - what is running in VMWare fusion? Vista or something like VirtualRails?
I have something similar at home - run Ubuntu as my main OS, but have a full webserver VirtualBox to reduce the number of unneeded processes running (only fire up the webserver vm when actually needed). My host OS does not have rails, MySQL client/server or gem installed at all. The Rails source is in the VM, linked to a directory on my main os by sshfs. If I need to run any ruby, rails or MySQL command, it has to be run from the web vm cli, NOT the hosts. For example, running "script/dbconsole" in a host cli box I get all sorts of horrible error messages, but it works as intended when run from a cli from the VM. What I think I'm saying is - if your rails dev environment is in a VM, use the resources of the VM to run Rails/MySQL tasks, not the hosts. HTH On 2 July 2010 19:54, DK <dk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > And to chime in... I have same experience that Windows is a suboptimal > environment, if not only from the fact that it 90% of the advice for Rails > online is referring to *nix (including mac). I would also recommend getting > up a simple Ubuntu vm. I tried configuring a Windows Server 2008 recently > for rails production env and it was 3 days of complete hell. I had the whole > thing done on Ubuntu server in about 1/2 day. Not that I had the same issue > as you with the db. > > Either that or just install InstantRails for Windows and get productive.... > you can always learn to do the install later. > > > On 2 July 2010 14:25, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > >> Dave Digital wrote: >> [...] >> > And still no luck. There is a larger issue here and not something as >> > simple as passwords. I've been fighting this for weeks. My love of rails >> > is turning to hate. >> >> This is probably not a Rails issue as such, so don't start hating Rails >> just yet. >> >> More stuff to try: >> >> * Do you have the mysql gem installed? (It looks like you do, but...) >> * What version of MySQL are you running? (Some people have reported >> problems with 5.1; you may want to switch to 5.0.) >> >> If it were my development setup, though, I'd avoid both MySQL and >> Windows entirely. I don't use Windows, but my understanding is that >> besides its being a pretty bad OS in general, a lot of Rails tools run >> less smoothly on it than on *nix (you can use a *nix VM, though). >> Likewise, MySQL is a pretty bad DB in comparison to systems like >> PostgreSQL. >> >> Best, >> -- >> Marnen Laibow-Koser >> http://www.marnen.org >> mar...@marnen.org >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
