Jim
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 @ 17:03 ¶

Will, Mike & Others:  Thank you for seeking this out. My apologies for the broken link.  This happened about a year ago too.  Since there have been new releases of both Tracks and Uniform Server, I need to re-assemble the package and make sure it works properly before re-posting.  That will take a couple days.  I will email bsag and update the article link when this is done.  Sorry again, and thanks for your patience.

Jim

bosyak
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 @ 03:51 ¶

I’m intresting too.

Charles Pedley
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 @ 22:42 ¶

When I follow the Windows all-in-one installation package for Tracks I find Testtool.cab [not sure whether two t’s or one in centre]. I get no TracksStart.bat.

So what is so easy about this?

I have been using computers since Windows 3.0
-Charles
charles@cpedley.com

Jim
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 @ 16:38 ¶

I must humbly apologize for not keeping others up to date on this installation.  I am not supporting in anymore.  The main reason is that the 4shared hosting was not reliable for me, and I am not really using Tracks often anymore.  Please see other portions of the site for my and John’s previous instructions about how to get Tracks running on Uniform Server. Also check the forum, and the very helpful comments of others in this article.

Tracks and Uniform Server are both terrific products.  I urge you to delve into them. If I do package up a Windows install for 1.5, I will host it somewhere I like and let you know.  But for now, its not on my immediate roadmap. 

Again, my apologies for letting this hang out there.  —Jim

Jim
Tue, 1 Apr 2008 @ 00:08 ¶

Well, thank you John. My goal would be to get it all zipped up into one big Uniform-Server-with-Tracks-Already-On-It package for download, along with the Ruby file needed to run it.  Just place it in your Windows directory, install Rubym and you have a plain vanilla Tracks instance already within U/S. 

If I get something put together, I will forward it to you for hosting, if you like. Again, this will take me time too, if I can make it work.

bsag
Tue, 1 Apr 2008 @ 08:01 ¶

Not to denigrate the huge amount of hard work that both John and Jim have put into the tricky problem of getting Tracks running on Windows, but there is now also the BitNami Tracks Stack. This is a single, complete installer for Tracks which works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and includes everything you need to run Tracks with MySQL. The only thing you can’t currently do with it is use SQLite3 as a db.

There’s nothing wrong at all with having multiple ways of installing Tracks available, but in in the interests of avoiding unecessary duplication of effort, can I encourage Windows users (including John and Jim if you get the time) to check it out and see if it fits your needs?

I’ve tried it with Mac OS X, but don’t have the resources to test on Windows (or Linux). It’s a fairly hefty install currently (though they are working on getting the size down), and it currently includes 1.5RC1 rather than the final release. I’ve contacted them about the final release, and hope that it will be updated soon.

John
Tue, 1 Apr 2008 @ 08:47 ¶

Work is a bit slow today so i’ve gone ahead and installed it - it works like a dream. The installer is large, true, but it’s smaller than the instant rails installer I was going to use anyway and the ease of installation makes life a lot simpler - merely run the installer, enter required MySQL database username and password, and then let it install.
Once it’s finished, you can let it start up for you or merely go to the program menu, select ‘start bitnami tracks stack service’ and go to the localhost page in your favourite browser! It’s that simple!

This is the default way of installing tracks in windows from now on - I’d suggest that you recommend using this method as it’s painless. I certainly won’t be duplicating my efforts when this installer is so easy to use.

P.S. it looks better in safari on windows than firefox…