Ruby on Rails on Windows 8

This guide will allow you to use Rails on Windows 8

Download the Rails Installer You will get Git and Devkit if not installed.

gem update --system
gem install bundler
gem install rails

Install node.js if Coffeescript ought to be used

Install MySQL if ought to be used. SQLLite is already installed.

gem install mysql2

will install the connector.

Download the connector-c, relevant to the gem version. Copy the libmysql.dll dll from the zip file to <<RailsInstallerPath>>\Ruby1.9.3\bin

To create an app

Go to the app location root folder

rails new APPNAME -d mysql

you can substitute the argument after -d for other databases

Go to the app location

rails s

Go to <<RailsInstallerPath>>\Ruby1.9.3\lib\ruby\1.9.1\webrick\httpresponse.rb

And apply this path