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The easy way
Again, I would recommend using a ‘one-click’ solution like InstantRails or Uniform Server to install a web server, MySQL and Ruby. Jim Strupp has written a detailed tutorial on installing Tracks 1.041 using Uniform Server, and also instructions for putting Tracks on a USB memory stick. You can download a PDF of the instructions here.
The harder way
You can use the one-click Windows installer here to grab Ruby and then install RubyGems so that you can install Rails and other dependencies and libraries. This page on the Ruby on Rails site has a lot of useful information on installation for Windows users.
Installing and using SQLite instead of MySQL
(These instructions were written by jobby)
- Grab sqlite-ruby-2.2.2-msvcrt-bin.zip from here, unzip and run install.rb to install.
- Get the SQLite dll from here and unzip to ‘’C:rubybin’’ (or wherever you installed ruby).
- Change database.yml to the format shown below:
adapter: sqlite
database: /FULLPATHTO/tracks/db/rails-production.db
- Download and unzip the 2.8.15 version of the SQLite command-line client to this directory.
- Done! Run using
ruby script\server --environment=production.