[Rails] rails on windows?

[Demetrius Nunes]

MCollins at seminolecountyfl.gov wrote:

> hi all,
> i'm new at rails, new at ruby.
> i've installed ruby (1.82.) and rails on windows 2000
> so, two questions.  
> one:, the mysql gem is giving me a  "Failed to build gem native 
> extension." by the way, i also get this error when installing on my 
> linux box at home.
> two: can i run rails on IIS?

You'd better off using the pre-compiled version of Ruby for Windows from 
the One-Click Ruby Installer at 
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/. And installing the latest 
version of Rails with "gem install rails". It works flawlessly.

Rgds