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Tony

Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:21 am


[Ruby] missing mswin32-ruby16.dll

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well this question is directed tawards wtd, but if anyone else can shed some light on the issue - please let me know.

I'm running mysql.so calls on mswin32-ruby16.dll library that I obviously don't have. A errorbox pops up informing me of such, though everything works just fine when I press "ok". The pages don't render outside of localhost though.

I aquired a copy of the missing file from Ruby's 1.6 installation, but that makes the site break with a "faulty Ruby code" exception.

I have also tried to cut or replace the call to the .dll from the .so file, but that just breaks the file :? 

One of the solutions is to write all of the database interactions myself using [url=http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-mysql/]ruby-mysql library writen by TOMITA Masahiro, but I want to figure out this farward incapability as I have encounted the same difficulty with another project.


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wtd

Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:38 pm



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Try asking at the comp.lang.ruby newsgroup.  Unfortunately, I don't have any helpful hints for this one.


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Tony

Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:28 am



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well great, gems don't work under Ruby 1.6 :? so even if I wanted to - I can't install Rails under an older version.. but reguardless

there seems to be a solution - get rid of apache!

a bit radical, but hey - that's where the problem originated. So I stoped the server, reinstalled rails and it works!

The only downside is that I need to point directly to localhost:3000 to get to the page and I haven't yet figured out how to point to this location over the network :? but that's the least of my problems since I have to show a demo @ localhost :wink: CSS is on my mind :lol:

Edit:
I guess it's not quite. I just needed to install Ruby 1.6 for it to leave the .dll where it needs to be and then install 1.8. Appache was causing a different problem.