I am trying get my first simple project in rails to run. I have installed wamp. And trying to make use of that same mysql db server installed with wamp. But I decided to make use of webrick, and not apache. Hoping that the configuration would be easier. I edited the database.yml file and the gemfile under my projects directory:
# MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
# gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: rubybeg_test
pool: 5
username: root
password: 1234
host: localhost
# Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
# re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
# Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
test:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: rubybeg_test
pool: 5
username: root
password: 1234
host: localhost
production:
adapter: mysql
encoding: utf8
reconnect: false
database: rubybeg_test
pool: 5
username: root
password: 1234
host: localhost
And here's gemfile:
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.0.5'
# Bundle edge Rails instead:
# gem 'rails', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git'
gem 'mysql'
# Use unicorn as the web server
# gem 'unicorn'
# Deploy with Capistrano
# gem 'capistrano'
# To use debugger (ruby-debug for Ruby 1.8.7+, ruby-debug19 for Ruby 1.9.2+)
# gem 'ruby-debug'
# gem 'ruby-debug19', :require => 'ruby-debug'
# Bundle the extra gems:
# gem 'bj'
# gem 'nokogiri'
# gem 'sqlite3-ruby', :require => 'sqlite3'
# gem 'aws-s3', :require => 'aws/s3'
# Bundle gems for the local environment. Make sure to
# put test-only gems in this group so their generators
# and rake tasks are available in development mode:
# group :development, :test do
# gem 'webrat'
# end
I used the command gem install mysql because mysql2 doesn't work for me.

What I did was to launch wampserver and stopped the apache service. It would take forever to load:
http://localhost:3000/rails/info/properties
Then webrick would crash. But if I do not launch wamp, I get this:
