Comments on: Setting up Rails on Windows with Cygwin

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:10:55 +0000

i set the host to 127.0.0.1 for client only, not mysqld (since it gave me ‘unrecognized variable’). i also changed port to 1033, as i had nothing listening on port 3306. worked for me.

By: ssaidwho

ssaidwho — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:53:19 +0000

I found that in addition to the my.cnf file change, I also needed to set host: 127.0.0.1 in the database.yml file. It was set to localhost previously

By: bed

bed — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:27:38 +0000

Great Site.Thank for suggesion.

By: Krystle Elzy

Krystle Elzy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:39:33 +0000

amazing stuff thanx:)

By: roger rubygems

roger rubygems — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:01:33 +0000

I had a different fix for the ‘could not connect to /tmp/mysql.sock’ problem, but similar

http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=1829
Thanks!
-r

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:45:32 +0000

Using this tutorial I was able to get cygwin up and running with rails and Mysql on Windows 7! It was much easier than Vista… 7 is awesome

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:59:17 +0000

Hi. I read a few of your other posts and wanted to know if you would be interested in exchanging blogroll links?

By: Installing MySQL gem on Windows & cygwin for Rails | Phase Shift

Installing MySQL gem on Windows & cygwin for Rails | Phase Shift — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:06:08 +0000

[...] socket, but we want it to use the server we installed in Windows (outside of cygwin). Check out the Getting Cygwin/Rails to work with MySQL section of our previous [...]

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:53:32 +0000

I saw a similar post about this on another blog so it just goes to show you that it is a small world after all (I hate that Disney ride).

By: Reuben

Reuben — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:02:18 +0000

I find Cygwin a wonderful way to get administrative things done in Windows and keep the old *nix skills sharpened while working in that environment (admittedly where all my web development is done from, given I’ve been a classic ASP programmer for 8 years, now moving to Rails).

As I am also a Linux systems administrator keeping high production systems online 24/7. I’ve been using Cygwin since its onslaught days in the late 90′s -well before Redhat purchased Cygnus Solutions. Naturally, when I discovered that I could get Rails working in Cygwin, my love of BASH on Windows evermore continues.

Gratefully, this site and it’s Cygwin/Rails insight, has been additionally resourceful in my dedicating a video tutorial (one of a series of of videos to come) viewable on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWHdxN86n0Q titled “Ruby on Rails + Cygwin + Windows Vista”.

I am working on a main website location where all the series of videos tutorials, and articles will reside (http://rails-dev.officialnameserver.net/rorcygwinvista), I will be be providing full credits and links to resources that have provided me with the much needed information on getting this going, and phaseshiftllc.com, and the articles contained here regarding Cygwin and Rails on Windows is going to be one on the top of that list.

Respectfully,

-Reuben :)+<