Curt Hibbs
3/19/2006 7:19:00 PM
On 3/19/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Speaking of Ruby/Rails and Windows, what are the chances of getting a
> unified Ruby/Rails One-Click Installer that has everything in both
> Instant Rails and the Ruby One-Click installer rolled into one package?
> It seems totally counterintuitive to me to have to install both of them
> to get, for example, FreeRide and Scite and Rails. And the last time I
> looked, the Ruby versions were different in the two packages.
>
> By the way, I'm not all that much interested in a Linux version of
> either of these. My preference is to have things integrated with the
> native Linux package management system for any given distribution
> whenever possible, and my distro -- Gentoo -- does a pretty good job
> with Ruby and Rails. I think Debian is also pretty good with them,
> although it's been a while since I did anything with Debian. I can't
> comment on Fedora/Red Hat or SUsE -- haven't touched them recently.
That's (pretty much) what Instant Rails is, (http://instant
Rails.rubyforge.org) however, there are two caveats.
First, since Instant Rails doesn't touch you system, you don't get the
menu shortcuts and filetype associations, and you'd have to add the
...\ruby\bin directory to your system path. We've talked about
including a separate executable that you could manually invoke that
would set all these things, but we don't currently have such a thing.
Second (and this is temporary). The current release of Instant Rails
has ruby-mswin32 and *not* the one-click installer. This as done for
expediency to get IR 1.0 out the does with Ruby 1.8.4 because the
one-click installer for 1.8.4 wasn't yet ready. After Rails 1.1 is
released, we will release Instant Rails 1.1with both the new Rails
*and* the one-click installer.
Curt