Monday, August 23, 2010

Install getontracks Tracks on Windows 7 64 bit mysql 5.0

Hello Everyone

After trying for several days trying to install tracks on windows 7 64 bit
finally succeeded.

I tried following http://www.getontracks.org/doc/chapter/2-installation.html

I had to figure out the hard way to install tracks on windows 7 64 bit.

1.Download the tracks from here Tracks zipped package .

2.Download ruby 1.8.7 here rubyInstaller1.8.7 and install

3.Download rubygems-1.3.5 here rubygems-1.3.5 and install (ruby setup.rb )

4.Download MySQL 5.0 64bit here mysql 5.0 64 bit and install

Installation instructions for Ruby Mysql

4a).Download sql-2.7.3-mswin32.gem and install
gem install mysql-2.7.3-mswin32.gem --no-rdoc

4b).Shutdown Mysql if is running

4c).Copy instantRails libmySQL.dl here libmySQL.dll Copy into your mysql bin directory where your MySQL 5.0 is installed not the ruby directory

4d).Restart MySQL

5.Rake gem install rake

Follow the instructions given for Installation given here you can skip the
requirements page.Make sure you use Editplus or Notepad++ for editing
the files using the instructions below.

Installation Instructions are here Installation Instructions