Comments on: 1 Minute Guide – Installing Redmine on Windows

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:03:14 +0000

i’m trying to setup Redmine on Windows to work with MS SQLServer. is that possible? please help.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:41:21 +0000

Very nice guide. Although I only use Linux distributions, this has helped one of my co developers.

By: Roy Tinker

Roy Tinker — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:07:58 +0000

This didn’t quite work out of the box, but it was close enough that it got me going on Windows Server 2008 with a little googling. Thanks!

The tough thing with install guides like the one on the Redmine site is that they give you too many options. They assume I have a preference between Mongrel and Apache, for example… just give me a list of steps (the easiest possible one), please.

Thanks again.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:00:38 +0000

Nevermind Thank you so much Mike Mooney that was unbelivably helpful

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:29:44 +0000

Please help i am new to all of this and my boss has told me that I have to install this. I do everything till i get to the step where i have to configure the database. How do you configure a database? Please help

By: Mike Mooney

Mike Mooney — Fri, 27 May 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Or just run the install from Bitnami: http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine. I spend a ton of time trying to get everything working right, and never did, but the Bitnami install took a few minutes and I was up and running. Sure, it proved that I’m not a ninja ruby hacker, but I already knew that.

By: Phi Bang

Phi Bang — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:59:50 +0000

hlep me!
in step 8 i have this mess:” undefined local variable or method `version_requirements’ for # ”
and i can’t run redmine

By: Richard Nichols

Richard Nichols — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:31:02 +0000

@Geoffrey Van Wyk
Which link? The Ruby 1.8 link points to RubyInstaller which is the official Windows installer for Ruby.

By: Geoffrey Van Wyk

Geoffrey Van Wyk — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:35:46 +0000

Your Ruby link points to a trojan.

By: Puneeth

Puneeth — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:11:45 +0000

If i give rake db:migrate its working fine, but if i give rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=”production” it is throwing error,

any suggestions please……..

By: Richard Nichols

Richard Nichols — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:14:08 +0000

@Jack I can’t, but Chuck Norris can.
ps. don’t take everything you read on the internet literally

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:56:53 +0000

Can you really do all that in a minute? Even assuming instant downloads and installation? The typing and clicking take more imho. Not to mention possible complications…

By: Steffin James

Steffin James — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:52:50 +0000

Try this link!Very helpful!
http://www.gayathri-frenzy.com/technology/ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1#comment-475

By: Frederic

Frederic — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:20:22 +0000

Hello,
Thanks a lot for this tutorial.
I have some error message to install service with : mongrel_rails service::install ….
so, instead of #5 and #11, I used this command :
gem install mongrel_service –platform i386-mswin32.

Thanks,
Frederic (from Bordeaux-France)

By: Matthew Knippen

Matthew Knippen — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:46:55 +0000

Hello,

Following this tutorial trying to install redmine on a Windows Server while being a Mac guy who has never used Rails or MySQL before, i got this error on step 8.

Note: for step 7, i just took the example db file and copied it removing the example.
> rake db:migrate
rake aborted!
RubyGem version error: rack (1.2.1 not ~> 1.0.1)
(See full trace by running task with –trace)

Please let me know if you have any insight.

Thanks,
Matthew

By: kmicu

kmicu — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:09:02 +0000

@MountainWhale
Firstly thanks for your comment. I had the same problem and it helped me a lot.
Secondly I used…
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (without -platform option)
gem install win32-service --platform=mswin32

Additionally for all my network commans I used proxy…
C:\Ruby\Apps\redmine-1.0.2>gem sources --http-proxy http://myproxy:8080 -a http://gems.github.com http://gems.github.com added to sources

Cheers!

By: MountainWhale

MountainWhale — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:49:39 +0000

My install would not work on MS Server 2008

I was getting this error:
C:\Ruby\Apps\Redmine>gem install win32-service -platform=mswin32
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing win32-service:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx()… no
creating Makefile

make
‘make’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-service-
0.7.1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-service-0.7.1/ext/gem_mak
e.out
ERROR: Could not find a valid gem ‘ûplatform=mswin32′ (>= 0) in any repository

Find the solution here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/191948

Run this at the command prompt: (you only have to do this once)
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com –platform=mswin32

Then run:
gem install win32-service –platform=mswin32

This worked for the mongrel service install as well.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:18:07 +0000

I was following the instructions on this tutorial and all was going well till the last step. When I try to run the command from the directory

E:\Ruby187\apps\Redmine>mongrel_rails service::install –N Redmine –p 8181 –e production
I get the following error

ERROR RUNNING ‘service::install’: Plugin /service::install does not exist in cat
egory /commands
Use help command to get help

I have searched online and could not find an answer please let me know if you know what the issue is so we can test this SW out.
Thanks

Buzz

By: Richard Nichols

Richard Nichols — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:14:45 +0000

My guess is that your database.yml file is not formatted correctly, i.e. you invalidated the file somehow when you changed the database config.
Maybe start over with a fresh one and make your settings again.

By: korpella

korpella — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:48:34 +0000

thanks alot Richard…

rake aborted!
syntax error on line 19, col 1: ` development:’

(See full trace by running task with –trace)

i am getting this problem when i try to migrate
Help

whats the issue sir?