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One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available!

Curt Hibbs

2/2/2006 1:15:00 AM

=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available! ===

This iteration includes the missing DBI support with the ODBC driver
(the Oracle driver is no longer included... if your need it, you'll
hvae to install that yourself).

This also fixes a problem with the ri database that prevented fxri
from working, so fxri now works!

Only thing missing now is XMLParser (and fix any bugs you find), and
we'll have a final release.


=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.

As usual, please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

Curt

== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! ==

*NOTE* Please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

*WARNING* This preview release for Windows is incomplete. Please read
below to find out what is missing, and don't install this if that is
not usable for you.

This is a preview release of the One-Click installer for Ruby version
1.8.4. It should be usable for most people, but it is missing a few
things that will be fixed before the final release:

- DBI: (database interface library) is not included.

- XMLParser: This C-based XML parser (which is an
interface to the Expat parser) is not included
(REXML, the pure Ruby XML parser, *is* included).

- If you levave "Enable RubyGems" selected, the RUBYOPT
environment variable is set to "rubygem" instead of
having having "rubygems" added to the RUBYOPT value
(similarly, uninstalling, deletes the RUBYOPT env.
variable).

- Uninstalling does not remove the start menu items.

=================

Starting with this release, I have completely rewritten the build
system for the One-Click Installer while I repeated the mantra:
simplify, simplify, simplify... This should make it easier to release
future versions of the One-Click installer more quickly. Of course,
its possible that this could introduce new problems, so please report
them here:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=167&am...

Of course, the big change for this release is that it uses Ruby 1.8.4.
The One-Click installer is now uses ruby-mswin32 and adds additional
extentions and applications. This means that all extension provided by
ruby-mswin32 are in the One-Click Installer. You can read about
ruby-mswin32 here:

http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/m...

Everything has been compiled with MS VC++ 6.0.

Here are some other notable changes:

* The SciTE code editor has been replaced by Notepad++. Both
are based on the Scintilla code editor component, but Notepad++
is a little more full featured and supports editing multiple
files in separate tabs.

* FreeRIDE (the Free Ruby IDE) has been updated to 0.9.5 and now
features real project support.

* FXRuby has been upgraded to 1.4.3 (final release will include
1.4.4). This also, still includes FXRuby 1.2.6 for those programs
that still require the older version. Both are included as
preinstalled RubyGems.

Below are the release notes.

======================================


Ruby Installer for Windows
Ruby Version 1.8.4
Installer Version 184-16
------------------------------
RELEASE NOTES
------------------------------

Contents: Version:
-------- --------

ruby-mswin32 1.8.4
zlib-lib 1.2.1
ZLib 0.6.0
RubyGems 0.8.11
Rake 0.7.0
RubySrc 1.8.4
FXRuby 1.2.6
FXri 0.3.2
FreeRIDE 0.9.5
Notepad++ 3.4
FXRuby 1.4.3
OpenGL 0.23b
GLUT 3.7.6
SWin 040314
VRuby 040306
Expat 1.95.8
HTMLParser 19990912p2
log4r 1.0.5
Programming Ruby 1st Edition
OpenSSL 0.9.7b-1
Iconv 1.8
readline 4.3-2
PDCurses 2.60-1
GDBM 1.8.3-1
Installer-Patches 1.8.4


1. You can install overtop of an existing installation that has
the same Ruby major version number (e.g., 1.6). Installations
up to and including 1.6.5-1 can only be uninstalled. All versions
can co-exist peacefully (DLL's willing) in separate directories.

2. This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++, not Cygwin.
As a result, some I/O functionality -- particularly those involving
the Unix fork() system call and pipes -- will not work. The benefit
of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby.


Reporting Bugs
--------------

Bugs in Ruby itself should be e-mailed to ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org.

Bugs in the installer should be reported at:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group_id=167&f...

Make sure your problem has not already been reported, then click
on "Submit New" to create a new bug report.


Disclaimer
----------

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.


Credits:
--------

Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz <matz@netlab.co.jp> created
Ruby in the first place.

Andy Hunt <andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com> did the original packaging
of this installer using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).

Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> has been maintaining the one-click
installer since it moved to RubyForge.org in early 2004.

Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> translated
the original LaTeX of "Programming Ruby" into XML
and arranged its release under the Open Publication License.

Bernard Delmée <bdelmee@advalvas.be> created the Windows Help
version of our "Programming Ruby" book.

Martin Ankerl <martin.ankerl@gmail.com> created fxri, a GUI
interface to the ri documentation database.

Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> created fxirb, a GUI
version of Ruby's console based irb (interactive ruby). fxirb
is incorporated into Martin Ankerl's fxri.

Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> ported and provides the
FXRuby GUI extension.
7 Answers

Glenn Smith

2/2/2006 1:47:00 PM

0

Curt

A BIG THANK YOU for all this work you are putting in. It makes Ruby so much
more accessible to people like me who just want to "install-and-go".

Ta very muchly

Glenn



On 02/02/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> === One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available! ===
>
> This iteration includes the missing DBI support with the ODBC driver
> (the Oracle driver is no longer included... if your need it, you'll
> hvae to install that yourself).
>
> This also fixes a problem with the ri database that prevented fxri
> from working, so fxri now works!
>
> Only thing missing now is XMLParser (and fix any bugs you find), and
> we'll have a final release.
>
>
> === One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===
>
> By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
> bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
> 1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.
>
> As usual, please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
> trying to download.
>
> Curt
>
> == One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! ==
>
> *NOTE* Please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
> trying to download.
>
> *WARNING* This preview release for Windows is incomplete. Please read
> below to find out what is missing, and don't install this if that is
> not usable for you.
>
> This is a preview release of the One-Click installer for Ruby version
> 1.8.4. It should be usable for most people, but it is missing a few
> things that will be fixed before the final release:
>
> - DBI: (database interface library) is not included.
>
> - XMLParser: This C-based XML parser (which is an
> interface to the Expat parser) is not included
> (REXML, the pure Ruby XML parser, *is* included).
>
> - If you levave "Enable RubyGems" selected, the RUBYOPT
> environment variable is set to "rubygem" instead of
> having having "rubygems" added to the RUBYOPT value
> (similarly, uninstalling, deletes the RUBYOPT env.
> variable).
>
> - Uninstalling does not remove the start menu items.
>
> =================
>
> Starting with this release, I have completely rewritten the build
> system for the One-Click Installer while I repeated the mantra:
> simplify, simplify, simplify... This should make it easier to release
> future versions of the One-Click installer more quickly. Of course,
> its possible that this could introduce new problems, so please report
> them here:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=167&am...
>
> Of course, the big change for this release is that it uses Ruby 1.8.4.
> The One-Click installer is now uses ruby-mswin32 and adds additional
> extentions and applications. This means that all extension provided by
> ruby-mswin32 are in the One-Click Installer. You can read about
> ruby-mswin32 here:
>
> http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/m...
>
> Everything has been compiled with MS VC++ 6.0.
>
> Here are some other notable changes:
>
> * The SciTE code editor has been replaced by Notepad++. Both
> are based on the Scintilla code editor component, but Notepad++
> is a little more full featured and supports editing multiple
> files in separate tabs.
>
> * FreeRIDE (the Free Ruby IDE) has been updated to 0.9.5 and now
> features real project support.
>
> * FXRuby has been upgraded to 1.4.3 (final release will include
> 1.4.4). This also, still includes FXRuby 1.2.6 for those programs
> that still require the older version. Both are included as
> preinstalled RubyGems.
>
> Below are the release notes.
>
> ======================================
>
>
> Ruby Installer for Windows
> Ruby Version 1.8.4
> Installer Version 184-16
> ------------------------------
> RELEASE NOTES
> ------------------------------
>
> Contents: Version:
> -------- --------
>
> ruby-mswin32 1.8.4
> zlib-lib 1.2.1
> ZLib 0.6.0
> RubyGems 0.8.11
> Rake 0.7.0
> RubySrc 1.8.4
> FXRuby 1.2.6
> FXri 0.3.2
> FreeRIDE 0.9.5
> Notepad++ 3.4
> FXRuby 1.4.3
> OpenGL 0.23b
> GLUT 3.7.6
> SWin 040314
> VRuby 040306
> Expat 1.95.8
> HTMLParser 19990912p2
> log4r 1.0.5
> Programming Ruby 1st Edition
> OpenSSL 0.9.7b-1
> Iconv 1.8
> readline 4.3-2
> PDCurses 2.60-1
> GDBM 1.8.3-1
> Installer-Patches 1.8.4
>
>
> 1. You can install overtop of an existing installation that has
> the same Ruby major version number (e.g., 1.6). Installations
> up to and including 1.6.5-1 can only be uninstalled. All versions
> can co-exist peacefully (DLL's willing) in separate directories.
>
> 2. This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++, not Cygwin.
> As a result, some I/O functionality -- particularly those involving
> the Unix fork() system call and pipes -- will not work. The benefit
> of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby.
>
>
> Reporting Bugs
> --------------
>
> Bugs in Ruby itself should be e-mailed to ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org.
>
> Bugs in the installer should be reported at:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group_id=167&f...
>
> Make sure your problem has not already been reported, then click
> on "Submit New" to create a new bug report.
>
>
> Disclaimer
> ----------
>
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
> WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
>
>
> Credits:
> --------
>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz <matz@netlab.co.jp> created
> Ruby in the first place.
>
> Andy Hunt <andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com> did the original packaging
> of this installer using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).
>
> Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> has been maintaining the one-click
> installer since it moved to RubyForge.org in early 2004.
>
> Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> translated
> the original LaTeX of "Programming Ruby" into XML
> and arranged its release under the Open Publication License.
>
> Bernard Delmée <bdelmee@advalvas.be> created the Windows Help
> version of our "Programming Ruby" book.
>
> Martin Ankerl <martin.ankerl@gmail.com> created fxri, a GUI
> interface to the ri documentation database.
>
> Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> created fxirb, a GUI
> version of Ruby's console based irb (interactive ruby). fxirb
> is incorporated into Martin Ankerl's fxri.
>
> Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> ported and provides the
> FXRuby GUI extension.
>
>


--

All the best
Glenn
Aylesbury, UK

Glenn Smith

2/2/2006 1:54:00 PM

0

Curt

A BIG THANK YOU for all this work you are putting in. It makes Ruby so much
more accessible to people like me who just want to install-and-go.

Ta very muchly

Glenn



On 02/02/06, Curt Hibbs wrote:
One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available

Glenn Smith

2/2/2006 2:40:00 PM

0

OK, GMail went a bit mad there - seems I thanked him and thanked him and
thanked him and ...



On 02/02/06, Glenn Smith <glenn.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Curt
>
> A BIG THANK YOU for all this work you are putting in. It makes Ruby so
> much
> more accessible to people like me who just want to install-and-go.
>
> Ta very muchly
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
> On 02/02/06, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available
>
>


--

All the best
Glenn
Aylesbury, UK

Curt Hibbs

2/2/2006 3:23:00 PM

0

Your welcome, your welcome, your welcome, your welcome, your welcome, ...

I threw in a couple extra, just in case! ;-)

Seriously, I appreciate the kind words.

Curt

On 2/2/06, Glenn Smith <glenn.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, GMail went a bit mad there - seems I thanked him and thanked him and
> thanked him and ...
>
>
>
> On 02/02/06, Glenn Smith <glenn.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Curt
> >
> > A BIG THANK YOU for all this work you are putting in. It makes Ruby so
> > much
> > more accessible to people like me who just want to install-and-go.
> >
> > Ta very muchly
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/02/06, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> All the best
> Glenn
> Aylesbury, UK
>
>

james_b

2/17/2006 12:34:00 AM

0

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> === One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available! ===
>

My apologies if this bug has already been reported:

I ran the installer, and unclicked the options for each of the bundled
editors (I'm happy using Vim). All seemed fine, until I noticed that if
I right-clicked on a file, and hit 'e' for Edit, I would be prompted for
what app to use to open the file (instead of simply launching Vim).

It turns out that the file association had been changed to use Scite,
which was (by choice) not installed.


But it otherwise rocks, and thanks for the great work.

--
James Britt

http://www.ru... - Ruby Help & Documentation
http://www.artima.c... - The Journal By & For Rubyists
http://www.rub... - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jame... - Playing with Better Toys
http://www.30seco... - Building Better Tools

Curt Hibbs

2/17/2006 4:25:00 AM

0

On 2/16/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > === One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview3 is available! ===
> >
>
> My apologies if this bug has already been reported:
>
> I ran the installer, and unclicked the options for each of the bundled
> editors (I'm happy using Vim). All seemed fine, until I noticed that if
> I right-clicked on a file, and hit 'e' for Edit, I would be prompted for
> what app to use to open the file (instead of simply launching Vim).
>
> It turns out that the file association had been changed to use Scite,
> which was (by choice) not installed.

No, this hasn't been reported yet... Thanks!

> But it otherwise rocks, and thanks for the great work.

Double thanks!! :-)

Curt

Curt Hibbs

2/18/2006 8:36:00 AM

0

On 2/17/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Curt,
>
> I notice with the new preview that my RUBYOPT still gets clobbered. (I
> have an r/local option that loads C:\local.rb, which adds several paths
> to $LOAD_PATH.)
>
> ISTR this was mentioned before, but I don't remember, is this something
> that can be fixed? A minor annoyance, but still...

Yes, its going to be fixed -- its a known bug.

Curt