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Whats the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular" Ruby install

joey se

2/20/2006 10:07:00 AM

hello!

as the subject goes, what's the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular"
Ruby install? on windows, ActiveRuby defaults to C:\program files, while
"regular" ruby on c:\ruby.

do i need both if i use ruby as wsh script and doing "regular"
programming task?


thank you!


5 Answers

David Vallner

2/21/2006 12:32:00 AM

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First things first: there's an ActiveRuby?! Well, not that noone saw it coming
or anything. Actually, took ActiveState bloody long now that I think of it.
Still, this is the first time I saw it mentioned at all.

Dna Pondelok 20 Február 2006 11:06 Joey S. Eisma napísal:
> hello!
>
> as the subject goes, what's the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular"
> Ruby install? on windows, ActiveRuby defaults to C:\program files, while
> "regular" ruby on c:\ruby.
>

I suppose very little. ActiveState tends to bundle some extra Windows-specific
stuff along with its language distribution. Like the wsh integration,
possibly some other libs too. IIRC, their Python distro also had quite a bit
of extra documentation bundled with it.

> do i need both if i use ruby as wsh script and doing "regular"
> programming task?
>

I doubt it. Whatever floats your boat, I say. I'd personally stick with just
one myself to avoid version mixup lossage, even if that's somewhat unlikely.

David Vallner


Robert H

2/21/2006 1:44:00 AM

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Looking at the ActiveState site, there isn't an "ActiveRuby" there. So
maybe he is talking about something else.

Robert

james_b

2/21/2006 2:04:00 AM

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David Vallner wrote:
> First things first: there's an ActiveRuby?! Well, not that noone saw it coming
> or anything. Actually, took ActiveState bloody long now that I think of it.
> Still, this is the first time I saw it mentioned at all.

ActiveRuby Script

Been around for a while now.

http://arton.hp.infos...

Has nothing to do with ActiveState.


--
James Britt

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion
of knowledge."
- D. Boorstin


joey se

2/21/2006 2:07:00 AM

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hello!

im talking about wsh scripting with ruby (rubyscript).

does it have different installer with "standard" ruby.


thanks!


Robert Hicks wrote:

>Looking at the ActiveState site, there isn't an "ActiveRuby" there. So
>maybe he is talking about something else.
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>Robert
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Hal E. Fulton

2/21/2006 4:16:00 AM

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Joey S. Eisma wrote:
> hello!
>
> im talking about wsh scripting with ruby (rubyscript).
>
> does it have different installer with "standard" ruby.

My understanding is yes, it's a different installer and
actually a different port of Ruby.

I think the actual project name is ActiveScriptRuby. Try
looking it up that way.


Hal