Rui CarmoA few notes taken while trying to get Rails working on Cygwin:
- Stock Ruby works perfectly (so far)
- Getting gem to work is also standard fare (get tar file, unpack, ruby setup.rb)
- Installing Rails using gem works first time, but is slow (generating documentation takes a long time)
- Tests work, but there’s no decent database support.
- The sqlite-ruby gem does not like SQLite3 (which, incidentally, installs and works fine in Cygwin, provided you run configure –disable-tcl and use a separate build directory). I have, in fact, tried gem install sqlite3, but the results were less than optimal. Maybe next time.
The right incantation for building the gem seems to be:
gem install sqlite-ruby -- --with-sqlite-lib=/usr/local/lib \
--with-sqlite-include=/usr/local/include
…but it does not like the new “3” suffix on headers and libs.
- Unpacking sqlite-2.8.16 and installing it (also without Tcl support) worked:
$ gem install sqlite-ruby -- --with-sqlite-lib=/usr/local/lib \
> --with-sqlite-include=/usr/local/include
Attempting local installation of 'sqlite-ruby'
Local gem file not found: sqlite-ruby\*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'sqlite-ruby'
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-cygwin)
1. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (mswin32)
2. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (ruby)
3. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (mswin32)
4. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (ruby)
5. sqlite-ruby 2.2.1 (ruby)
6. sqlite-ruby 2.2.1 (mswin32)
7. sqlite-ruby 2.2.0 (mswin32)
8. sqlite-ruby 2.2.0 (ruby)
9. sqlite-ruby 2.1.0 (ruby)
10. sqlite-ruby 2.1.0 (mswin32)
11. sqlite-ruby 2.0.3 (ruby)
12. sqlite-ruby 2.0.2 (ruby)
13. Cancel installation
> 2
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
...
Successfully installed sqlite-ruby-2.2.3
Installing RDoc documentation for sqlite-ruby-2.2.3...
If you have problems building the native extensions, try doing a rebaseall on a standard Cygwin prompt without any Cygwin-based daemons running.