12 March 2006 in Code | Comments enabled

Last week Andrew gave a few of us a run down on how he was using Ruby on Rails (RoR) for a few small projects. I already knew that RoR was a reasonably efficient way of developing database driven websites but I didn’t realise just how good it was.

So this weekend I decided to throw away my InstantRails package and install it all properly. InstantRails is a cool all-in-one package you can download that sets up MySQL, Apache and RoR when you run it up (and then closes them when you close it – no messy resources being taken up, nice). However now I wanted to do things properly.

So I downloaded Gems (the Rails package manager), MySQL (my host uses that, but I could have used my existing SQL Server instance), Ruby. Everything went swimmingly – almost.

I ran into a small problem with a couple of errors when doing some things that seemed to relate to ssleay32.dll. After some reading I found it also included the file libeay32.dll. From what I read they need to be manually put into your System32 directory on Windows 2003 although it could affect other operating systems versions.

I thought I’d post this entry mainly for myself when in the future I go to setup RoR again and need those dlls I can just download them here. Download libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll.

So now I’m just tinkering with some code – perhaps more RoR posts will follow

- JD