[Mongrel] Mongrel doesn''t start under Rails 2.0.2/Win XP

Wes Gamble
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:48:17 -0000

> I''ll suggest you install a clean version of One-Click Installer
> (latest is 1.8.6-26) and then install your gems in a clean
> environment.
>
> Ensure first you don''t have nmake or cl in your path. That will
avoid
> gems being compiled with VC8.
>

This is kind of funny, because when rubygems 0.9.5 came out, it appeared
that I was now _required_ to compile native gems on Windows and that is
when I finally made sure that nmake would work to completion and
actually compile stuff.  It sounds like you''re saying that I should
have
waited for the pre-compiled gems to get fixed :).

> A mac is expensive, and will not remove the whole pain of using
> Ruby... check some of the Leopard nightmares around the web ;-)

It''s true.  But given that, in my experience, many gem and plugin
developers test little to not at all on Windows, the Mac is the
"platform of least surprise".  Although I''ve been able to
solve all of
my Windows-specific Ruby issues eventually, I am just tired of having to
spend time and energy doing that.

Wes
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