Can't install on Windows

[afomi]

spent an hour trying to get an ENV up on Windows 9, without luck

[jszwedko]

I assume you mean Windows 10 😄 -- unless I'm missing something. We could solve this by keeping an up-to-date Vagrant image, I feel like I'd rather that than maintaining instructions for installing Ruby and Postgres on Windows.

[afomi]

haha - yep. 10 - and ya, Vagrant is a good idea. I'll also keep an eye out for good Windows instructions on getting Ruby and Postgres going (if there are any)

[howdoicomputer]

I am working off of a Windows 10 machine and recently submitted a PR that added the tzinfo gem for Windows support.

I'm writing code and everything is working properly.

[jszwedko]

@howdoicomputer good to hear :) I think some of the confusion for this issue was around running Postgres and Ruby on Windows, but I may be misremembering. We could add some links to other documents for how to do that though.

[howdoicomputer]

Windows development is always tricky for projects that require C extensions. I'll write a guide somewhere but potential Windows developers would need to install Ruby 2.X, install Ruby DevKit, install Postgres, and then follow the documentation for DevKit so that gems like json can have their C extensions compiled correctly.

I also found that there is a bug in the bcrypt gem that required some custom installation steps as well. Well, less of a bug and more of lack of support for Ruby 2.X on Windows.

I mean, it's a bit tricky but if the steps are laid out it takes less than ten minutes to get everything running to the point that bundle exec rake test returns 0 errors.

[howdoicomputer]

Alright, I went ahead and wrote a lengthy guide in the wiki for setting this up on Windows.

https://github.com/sfbrigade/adopt-a-drain/wiki/Windows-Development-Environment

Is this issue ready for closing?

[jszwedko]

Indeed it is, these instructions are great!