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csanford New member Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Midwest Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 18:56 Before we get into this... these instructions look a lot worse than what they are-- I tried to be very thorough. As of 2 hours ago, I'm currently running WAMP 1.6.4 + RoR on Windows XP Pro (SP2). Things you will need: 1. Wampserver (Prepackaged Apache 2, PHP, phpMyAdmin, MySQL) - http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php 2. Ruby "One-Click" Installer for Windows - http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 3. Ruby Gems for Windows (Similar to PEAR) - http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126 4. Ruby For Apache - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyforapache/ Step By Step Process: First and foremost, I have used many servers for my development environment, but none have compared to WAMP. It allows you to easily flip Apache modules / PHP extensions on and off, not to mention switch between PHP 4 and PHP 5, all with an unintrusive GUI. There are quite a few plug-ins such as Zend Optimizer, Webalizer, Perl, etc. The best part is that WAMP is FREE. (although donations are welcome, which I myself have been rallying my organization to contribute to the project). Keep in mind that for my entire example, wamp is setup on my D:\wamp drive / path. As you are following these instructions, substitute your drive / path. I will remind you periodically to substitute your drive / path. It is imparitive you pay attention, and follow these instructions verbatim. Do not skip ahead! (unless told to do so) Step 1 - Install Wampserver (#1 of "Things you will need") - If you already have WAMP installed, continue to Step 2 Step 2 - Install Ruby (#2 of "Things you will need") - When the application starts, it will ask you if you want to install SciTE and FreeRIDE; These are not required - I installed ruby alongside my php directories under D:\wamp, so the end path will be D:\wamp\ruby - Click "Install" Step 3 - Install Ruby Gems (#3 of "Things you will need") - Extract the contents of your Ruby Gems to D:\wamp\ruby\rubygems - Open a DOS prompt window, and enter the following commands: `> D: > cd D:\wamp\ruby\rubygems > setup` - Note: keep in mind your wamp drive / path - If all went well, you should see the following (or similar): `Successfully built RubyGem Name: sources Version: 0.0.1 File: sources-0.0.1.gem` Step 4 - Install Rails - Open a DOS prompt window, and enter the following commands: `> D: > cd D:\wamp\ruby\rubygems > gem install rails --include-dependencies` - Be patient... gems is downloading rails from rubyforge.org - Again, if all went well, you should have seen commands executing, with a final note indicating `Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.14.4... Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.12.5... Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-1.2.5... Installing RDoc documentation for actionwebservice-1.1.6...` - Keep in mind that there will be more statements than what I included above. Step 5 - Install Ruby For Apache (#4 of "Things you will need") - I installed Ruby for Apache in my D:\wamp\ruby\RubyForApache subdirectory - Locate your Apache server directory, in my case, its D:\wamp\Apache2 (keep in mind that the application for whatever reason tries to append "RubyForApache" to the path. Simply make the path "D:\wamp\Apache2" (or where your root Apache directory is located)) - Next, locate your root ruby directory, which is D:\wamp\ruby for me. Again, remove the "RubyForApache" from the "D:wamp\ruby" path (see above). - Finally, for the Installation Options, uncheck all options but "mod_fastcgi" - Note: The application may alert you that it cannot open c:\xppro\system32\msvcp71.dll. Just rename it and retry. As I'm writing this documentation, I didn't have an issue, but had noticed it on a previous install. Step 6 - Setup Apache - After the Ruby For Apache is installed, you will notice 'mod_fastcgi.so' in your D:\wamp\Apache2\modules folder - Next, move to D:\wamp\Apache2\config directory and open 'httpd.conf' - After the LoadModules section, append the following code: `LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so <IfModule> FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 10 -maxProcesses 10 -minProcesses 1 -processSlack 1 \ -initial-env PATH="d:/wamp/ruby/bin;c:/windows/system32;c:/windows;d:/wamp/mysql/bin/" \ -initial-env RUBYOPT=rubygems AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi .fpl </IfModule>` - UPDATE: phpBB is parsing the above code incorrectly. The opening "IfModule" tag above needs to be changed to: "IfModule mod_fastcgi.c" - Note: Substitute your wamp drive / path! - Also, make for certain the following is uncommented: `LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so` - Restart Apache via the Wampserver system tray GUI Step 7 - Install your first Rails App - If you have a "work" directory for Ruby projects, change to that directory. Open a DOS prompt window, and enter the following commands: `> D: > cd D:\wamp\www\projects\RUBY > rails test` - This creates your first rails application in D:/wamp/www/projects/RUBY/test - Note: your "projects\RUBY\" directory may differ. Simply substitute your path as needed. Step 8 - Modify your "test" install's "public/.htaccess" file - Navigate to your D:\wamp\www\projects\test\public\ folder and open the .htaccess file - Look for: `# General Apache options AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI` - And change to: `# General Apache options # AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI` - We do this because we've already defined the handlers in step 6. - Next, look for: `RewriteRule ^(.)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]` - And change to (change .cgi extension to .fcgi): `RewriteRule ^(.)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]` - Save and close the file Step 9 - You are almost done. One last change to the "public/dispatch.fcgi" file - Navigate to your D:\wamp\www\projects\test\public\ folder and open the dispatch.fcgi file - Change the #! (shebang - line #1) at the top of the file to reflect the path to the Ruby interpreter (where its located on your system). I had to change mine to: `#!D:/wamp/ruby/bin/ruby` - Note: Your path may differ. If you don't remember the ruby intepreter's path, refer to Step 2. - Save and close the file In Conclusion Finally, you should be ready to see some action. Make for certain that you restart your wampserver. If not all of the services fire up (mainly Apache), you might have skipped a step, or "fat-fingered" something. Go back now and check your work. If the servers did start fine, open a browser (preferably something that is not IE ;)), and point it to http://127.0.0.1/projects/RUBY/test/public/ Again, change "projects/RUBY/" to the appropriate path, but DONT REMOVE "public" from the URL! The directory "public/" is where rails is initialized. Depending on server configuration (production/live), this is usually done with .htaccess files, http.conf virtual hosts, etc. Don't worry about this so much. Once you direct your browser to the aforementioned URL, you should see the "Welcome Aboard" index page-- don't celebrate yet. Directly beneath the header, there is a link that says "About your application's environment," click it. If you see a yellow box animate open, you are good to go. If you see a red box, you missed a step. Assuming you are seeing the yellow box, append something to the URL like "http://127.0.0.1/projects/RUBY/test/public/weblog"; you WILL get a Routing Error. If you see this, pat yourself on the back for a job well done because rails is installed. Your next step is to look up articles on www.rubyonrails.com or www.google.com, for the next steps. Just keep in mind that RoR comes with a plethora of scripts that automate creation of new controllers and models, which relates to the "scripts/generate" references you will see. I apologize now for typos / mispellings... I'm currently at work and don't have a lot of time for finesse :) Last edited by csanford on Fri Oct 20, 2006 18:56; edited 1 time in total

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Jamie New member Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 22:38 You're a genius! Thanks soooo much for taking the time to post these instructions. They were spot on. I registered just to say Thanks! This needs to be mirrored and the WAMP forum as well.

csanford New member Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Midwest Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 22:46 Thanks for the kind words... Actually I did post the instructions on the WAMP site, but I think they may have removed my post. ;) Good luck with RoR!

mutejute New member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 23:04 just like jamie, i registered to say many many thanks for your post. Followed every step and never encountered a problem in setting up wamp/ror server. thanks again.

tzmedia Site Moderator Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1111 Location: Mars Status: Offline	Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 07:28 This might be useful, currently my host isn't supporting me with Ruby, but lots of the apps I'm seeing look worth making the leap. I've got an iis dev plan maybe I can talk my host into offering Ruby with the package, it's worth a shot. thanks. I've got Xampp, not Wamp not sure what's the differences really,

vikingkarwur New member Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Status: Offline	Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 15:11 Thanks... Now I'm running RoR in My WAMPServer --- Cool...

falieson New member Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 02:24 Thanks for the great run through - I ended up saving it on my backup HD incase I need to reinstall wamp+ror while I am unable to access the net (the only reason I'm not using my nix box anyways). I went through your steps and after having some other problems I ended up uninstalling/installing wamp, then I reinstalled ruby4apache. Now, when redoing the mods for httpd.conf the wamp apache service will not boot when I add the fastcgi_module. Adding the below code keeps my server from loading - any help would be awesome! adding: LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so <IfModule> FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 10 -maxProcesses 10 -minProcesses 1 -processSlack 1 \ -initial-env PATH="d:/wamp/ruby/bin;c:/windows/system32;c:/windows;d:/wamp/mysql/bin/" \ -initial-env RUBYOPT=rubygems AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi .fpl </IfModule>

bigcitypc New member Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 23:11 I am having this same problem when adding LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so apache fails to load. Any suggestions?

swethavasu New member Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 13:50 Hi, I'm having problem in installing ROR on WAMP. LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so <IfModule> FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 10 -maxProcesses 10 -minProcesses 1 -processSlack 1 \ -initial-env PATH="d:/wamp/ruby/bin;c:/windows/system32;c:/windows;d:/wamp/mysql/bin/" \ -initial-env RUBYOPT=rubygems AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi .fpl </IfModule> After adding the above content in apache http.conf file apache server stopped working. I have installed the rubyonapache and in modules folder there is mod_fastcgi.so file. Can anybody solve my problem. Thanks in advance.. Vasu

tzmedia Site Moderator Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1111 Location: Mars Status: Offline	Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 19:26 Sitepoint just started offering a Ruby ON Rails dev eBook for free download. I posted the link in public news on the SG homepage: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/freebook.php Here's the link again, they may have a section setting up the test server, I'ld guess they do.

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