A few notes taken while trying to get Rails working on Cygwin:
Stock Ruby works perfectly (so far) Getting gem to work is also standard fare (get tar file, unpack, ruby setup.rb) Installing Rails using gem works first time, but is slow (generating documentation takes a long time) Tests work, but there's no decent database support. The sqlite-ruby gem does not like SQLite3 (which, incidentally, installs and works fine in Cygwin, provided you run configure --disable-tcl and use a separate build directory). I have, in fact, tried gem install sqlite3, but the results were less than optimal. Maybe next time.The right incantation for building the gem seems to be:
gem install sqlite-ruby -- --with-sqlite-lib=/usr/local/lib / --with-sqlite-include=/usr/local/include...but it does not like the new "3" suffix on headers and libs.
Unpacking sqlite-2.8.16 and installing it (also without Tcl support) worked: $ gem install sqlite-ruby -- --with-sqlite-lib=/usr/local/lib / > --with-sqlite-include=/usr/local/include Attempting local installation of 'sqlite-ruby' Local gem file not found: sqlite-ruby*.gem Attempting remote installation of 'sqlite-ruby' Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-cygwin) 1. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (mswin32) 2. sqlite-ruby 2.2.3 (ruby) 3. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (mswin32) 4. sqlite-ruby 2.2.2 (ruby) 5. sqlite-ruby 2.2.1 (ruby) 6. sqlite-ruby 2.2.1 (mswin32) 7. sqlite-ruby 2.2.0 (mswin32) 8. sqlite-ruby 2.2.0 (ruby) 9. sqlite-ruby 2.1.0 (ruby) 10. sqlite-ruby 2.1.0 (mswin32) 11. sqlite-ruby 2.0.3 (ruby) 12. sqlite-ruby 2.0.2 (ruby) 13. Cancel installation > 2 Building native extensions. This could take a while... ... Successfully installed sqlite-ruby-2.2.3 Installing RDoc documentation for sqlite-ruby-2.2.3...If you have problems building the native extensions, try doing a rebaseall on a standard Cygwin prompt without any Cygwin-based daemons running.
