1. In the account settings click on “More Settings …”

2. On the Advanced Tab, change the encryption type from “none” to what ever works with your server, or just try “auto”

I really can’t understand why “none” is the default … but who understands Microsoft …

I will be repeating some steps that are already mentioned in the “Distributing Rails Applications” tutorial.
First add this to the top of your environment.rb, this is a bit different then mentioned in the tutorial. Basically it should be working as mentioned in the tutorial, but in the last two days I was trying to solve this problem until late in the night and can’t really remember why I changed it

module Rails
  class Configuration
    def database_configuration
      conf = YAML::load(ERB.new(IO.read(database_configuration_file)).result)
      if defined?(TAR2RUBYSCRIPT)
        conf.each do |k, v|
          if v["adapter"] =~ /^sqlite3/
            v["database"] = oldlocation(v["database"]) if v.include?("database")
            v["dbfile"]   = oldlocation(v["dbfile"])   if v.include?("dbfile")
          end
        end
      else
        YAML::load(ERB.new(IO.read(database_configuration_file)).result)
      end
    end
  end
end

Create a init.rn in the root of your application folder, you can remove the three “puts” lines, just added them for debug purposes.

at_exit do
  require "irb"
  require "drb/acl"
  require "sqlite3"
end
 
puts "Running as an RBA." if defined?(TAR2RUBYSCRIPT)
puts "Runing from: " + oldlocation
puts "Runing in: " + newlocation
 
load "mig.rb"
load "script/server"

As you can see there is a new “load” line which load mig.rb before starting the server. Here is where the magic happens.
Actually the mig.rb is nothing but a copy of the rake script with a extra line.

require 'rubygems'
require 'rake'
 
version = ">= 0"
 
ARGV<<"db:migrate"
 
gem 'rake', version
load 'rake'

So what happens is that tar2rubyscript executes init.rb on startup, then the mig.rb is called which always does a rake db:migrate. This is done but manually adding “db:migrate” to ARGV, this has to be done so the script can be started with “load”, starting the script with a system command won’t work!
This is because the environment set up by tar2rubyscript will be missing and your migrations just won’t work.

Thats all! Incredible that for this answer I spend 2 long long nights. But now it works as it should, when starting it without tar2rubyscript it work’s as usual and with tar2rubyscript it works also great and I can have migrations when I send out new software versions. 
The idea is that the same application is intended to run in two different environments, one being a usual ruby on rails environment on Linux with a MySQL Database and the other being sent out via CD and it must run on windows.
I could have made complete installer to install Ruby, Rubygems, SQLite, the Gems I need … and much more. This way it is much much easier and nobody has to install anything, just click the exe, open the browser and start working.

One of the things that has always made Unices so popular and admired was the shells out there. In fact, most operating systems today have some sort of a competent CLI interface. This is for two reasons. Firstly, in order to offer a way to automate repetitive tasks. Secondly, because you may expect to login remotely, without having access to a graphical environment. And thirdly, because there are cases when you will simply discard the GUI, like when running a web server.

Windows sticked to cmd.exe, which is essentially a slightly polished version of command.com. Command.com itself is little more than a CP/M shell clone. So essentially, cmd.exe offers the same facilities which computers were offering 25 years ago, on Z80-based machines. Needless to say, this is very painful

Oh yes how true. I now have to search for some software that can change the size of some images in batch and also watermark them. Since ImageMagik is available for windows it would be quite easy if windows had some usefull shell, but how do you do this on windows?

for ii in *.jpg
do
  convert -resize 600x600 $ii $ii
done

[HowTo] XP + OSX 10.4.4-10.4.7 native dual boot – InsanelyMac Forum

Got the annoying Windows message to get genuine? Method 2 seems to be the easiest one (no safe mode reboot, not much work no deleting)
But since I have a Mac and my Linux servers, this doesn't really bother me so M$ you won't get a fucking cent from me !

Billy & Co ( especialy Steve Balmer ) I wish you die of a real painful death !