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General Discussion Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Windows

Daniel Oropeza
Daniel Oropeza
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Posted by Daniel Oropeza
Daniel Oropeza
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Is it fine to use XAMPP instead of downloading mySQL seperately?

If it works it works right?

1 Answer

jason chan
jason chan
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jason chan
jason chan
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Just use xampp. If you going to download mysql seperate it's going to break. So. Just try to follow everything with phpmyadmin. Trust me you'll do this in cpanel in the job world. ;)