RailsOnCygwin

Note: For development, use the rails built-in http server on port 3000. It is much more to the point, during development, than using Apache.

• Download ruby-1.8.2-i386-cygwin.tar.gz
• Unzip it to c:\cygwin (use paths in the zip file)
• Download rubygems-0.8.10.tgz to /tmp
  • tar -zxvf it
  • unset RUBYOPT
• ruby setup.rb
• gem update
• gem install rails

• gem install --source http://dist.leetsoft.com login_generator

• In c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts put
  • 127.0.0.1 z
• mkdir /rails
• cd /rails
• rails z
  • My app is named z

• Notes on RailsAndApache2 relocated.

• Run MySQL-Front (Version 3.2, build 4.15):
  • Create new session:
    • Name: localhost-no-db
    • Server: localhost
    • Compression: off
    • Login user: root
    • password: (empty)
    • Character set: utf-8
  • Login with the session
  • Click on the mysql database
  • Click on localhost (unless you do both, the next menu is grayed)
  • Database/New/Database
    • Name: z_development
    • Character Set: utf-8
    • Collation: (empty)
  • Repeat the Database creation for z_test and z_production

• Edit /rails/z/config/database.yml

  • reference z_development (and test and prod)
  • Change host 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'
• script/generate login Account
• edit app/controllers/application.rb and put at the top:
  • require_dependency "login_system"

• Also in app/controllers/application.rb, put just inside class ApplicationController

  • include LoginSystem

  • model :user
• Run SQL-Front and create table "users" (lower-case, plural).
  • After the table is created, rename "Id" to "id"
  • Field: login varchar(64)
  • Field: password varchar(64)
• script/server

• http://z:3000/account/signup

• http://z:3000/account/login

• in /rails/z:
  • script/generate scaffold User
    • Capital U and singular
  • script/server

• http://z:3000/users

• script/generate scaffold City
• script/generate scaffold Merchant