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rake db:migration – Segmentation fault

I installed apache and MySQL on my Windows XP laptop by using WampServer.  It’s convenient for setting up a local development environment. I’m creating a Rails application and ran “rake db:migrate” to create the database tables for my project.  When I did so, I got the following: rake db:migrate –trace ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** [...]

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rake db:create – this application has failed to start because libmysql.dll was not found

While creating a Ruby on Rails application for the first time under Windows XP, I ran into a problem.  I usually do Ruby on Rails development on Linux, but I’ve been wanting to do it on my laptop; it runs XP, since I do a lot of .NET development. When I ran “rake db:create” to [...]

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About Charles Calvert and Celtic Wolf

Charles Calvert is the President of Celtic Wolf, Inc., a consultancy that provides web development, software development and database services.

Charles has been using computers for 25 years and programming them for over 20. He's written programs in (somewhat chronologically) Pascal, C, C++, VB6, awk, Perl, C# (both .NET and ASP.NET), PHP and Ruby. His database experience includes Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft Access. His current fascination is Ruby on Rails and all of the cool tools surrounding it.

When not creating websites and writing code, he writes about software, gives presentations about consulting, business and software, reads voraciously, and spends time with his wife and kids.

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