Install MySQL driver in rails in Windows

1. Install Ruby
I will not talk nonsense about this. The installation is very simple and there are a lot of online materials.
After installation, add D: Ruby \ bin to the environment variable path (depending on your installation path)
After the installation is complete, enter ruby-V in the command line. The version number is displayed, indicating that the installation is successful. My version number is 1.8.6.

2. Install rails
I suggest you go to the official website to download the rails-2.3.2.gem and then enter the gem install rails-2.3.2.gem in the command line, wait and OK. The supervisor cannot be installed, so it is depressing. Later, I used thunder. It's okay if you don't care that much. You can just install it)

3. MySQL database driver Configuration
A. The first step is to install mysql. I will not talk about it much, so it is safe.
B. Find ibmysql. dll in the bin directory of the MySQL installation directory and copy the file to the bin directory of the Ruby installation directory.
C. and then to fuse (like the previous problem, you have to use thunder to get down to the correct format), this is the MySQL driver, from the command line to enter the directory of the file, run the gem install mysql-2.7.3-mswin32.gem, do not make it a success. The following error may occur:
Successfully installed mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32
1 gem installed
Installing Ri documentation for mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32...
Installing rdoc documentation for mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32...
Error: while generating documentation for mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32
... Message: unhandled Special: TYPE = 17, text = "<! -- $ ID: readme.html, V 1.20 2006-12-2
0 05:31:52 Tommy exp $ -->"
... Rdoc ARGs: -- op D:/Ruby/lib/Ruby/gems/1.8/doc/mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32/rdoc -- exclude ext -- m
Ain readme -- Quiet ext readme docs/readme.html -- title mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32 documentation
(Continuing with the rest of the installation)
This is because you didn't press rdoc
Http://rubyforge.org/frs? Group_id = 627 go to the next rdoc-2.4.3.gem, then run the gem install rdoc-2.4.3.gem, after the installation is successful, go back and re-run the gem install mysql-2.7.3.gem.
So far, you can start learning well.