Garbage Burrito

Guess what?  I like Windows.  So sue me.

However DOS sucks, and I need a good CLI.  After finding Console I was feeling better, but I still needed the power of *nix command line tools.  I usually have a copy of cygwin installed, but I've never dived into it and used it as a development environment.

So I set out to get a functional Rails development environment, and it wasn't too easy, but I made it out alive.  Here's what I did in a Nutshell.

Installed Cygwin with
    ruby
    subversion
    ssh
    libopenssl-devel
    vim
    
Then you'll need gems, so download the tgz here.  Before you install it you'll need to run the following command, else you'll get an error.

$ unset RUBYOPT

After that unzip the gems package and run the setup script.  

Then I installed my gems for rails, capistrano, and rails machine.

$ gem install rails --include-dependencies
$ gem install gem_plugin daemons capistrano --include-dependencies
$ gem install mongrel mongrel_cluster railsmachine --include-dependencies

That went smoothly.  After that I had a problem where it was using the Windows version of Subversion, instead of the cygwin one.  So I changed my PATH in .bash_profile and took out all the windows paths.  After that I was able to run cap commands.

Then I needed RMagick, so I had to install ImageMagick first.  I re-ran cygwin setup and installed the following packages.  I actually didn't install them all at once.  It was through a series of trial and error while installing RMagick.

    g++
    gcc
    ImageMagick
    libmagick-devel
    XFree86-lib-compat
    xorg-x11-devel
    libbz2-devel

Then install rmagick from the gem.

I figured I might as well keep the windows version of Mysql, but when I ran my tests I could an error saying it couldn't find /tmp/mysql.sock.  After some searching I found out that you can fix this by changing 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' in your config.

Finally, once my tests got to the RMagick stuff, I got some remap error or something.  Again to google and I found out that I needed to install 'rebase' and run this command from DOS, with all cygwin instances closed.

> ash rebaseall

That wasn't so bad really.  Now I have a fully functional Rails environment running under cygwin! 

BTW, I didn't write down the websites that help me along the way, sorry guys.