See http://www.therealvan.com/pn/?p=186 for installing: Rails 3.0.3 & MySQL on Windows 7. After installing those, and once work begins, chances are an IDE w/ line-debugging capabilities are needed. Aptana Studio 3 seems to…
Mainly notes on setting up the following (suitable for Dreamhost's Rails setup): Ruby 1.8.7-p374 Rails 3.0.3 Ruby devkit (from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) MySQL Installer 5.6.17 Community Server 64-bit mysql2 GEM '0.2.22' Install Ruby 1.8.7 by…
Prerequisite Maven 3.x installed - try http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi Important: earlier versions of Maven, such as 2.x, won't work correctly Set-up Locate a subdirectory and run: mvn archetype:generate When prompted, use maven-archetype-quickstart…