Asp Forum - Weird: Just unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip -- no Ruby.exe

RichardOnRails

8/2/2008 5:55:00 AM

Hi,

I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
over WinXP-Pro/SP2. I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
Window's PATH. All worked well for a good while.

I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
regexps. I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin. When
the ruby.exe command didn't work, a search of the 1.9 installed
revealed the absence of that file.

Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
more of my stupid mistakes?

Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.

Cheers,
Richard

6 Answers

Luis Lavena

8/2/2008 10:47:00 AM

On Aug 2, 7:54 am, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
> over WinXP-Pro/SP2. I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
> Window's PATH. All worked well for a good while.
>
> I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
> regexps. I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
> houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin. When
> the ruby.exe command didn't work, a search of the 1.9 installed
> revealed the absence of that file.
>
> Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> more of my stupid mistakes?
>
> Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.
>

Hello Richard,

You extracted the source package of Ruby 1.9 and not a Windows binary.

As part of the One-Click Installer team i didn0t pursue a release of
1.9 for Windows since:

# 1.9 is developer oriented and not end user, the availability of the
package will make a lot of user try to upgrade and break their setups.

# 1.9 introduce changes that require a deeper analysis of the gems and
extensions bundled with One-Click installer which will require a lot
of time, besides depending on external development teams to provide
the updated versions (which most of them are under development).

I think those two points are good ones, but feel free to disagree with
me.

If you're really interested in 1.9 binaries, you can grab the windows
barebone version from garbagecollect:

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

Look into the development snapshots in the sidebar.

Also you will find a good reading over there.

On a side note, is not a good practice just extract on top of
something that was working, you could break it :-P

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena

Harry Kakueki

8/2/2008 11:49:00 AM

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:53 PM, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
> over WinXP-Pro/SP2. I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
> Window's PATH. All worked well for a good while.
>
> I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
> regexps. I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
> houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin. When
> the ruby.exe command didn't work, a search of the 1.9 installed
> revealed the absence of that file.
>
> Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> more of my stupid mistakes?
>
> Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>
>

A post recently (7/28) went through Ruby List that talks about Ruby
1.9.0-3 compiled with VC++6..

I am not using Windows and I don't know much more about this.
But if you are interested, there is a link at my website.
Now it is the first link at the top.

Harry

--
A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English
http://www.kakueki.com/ruby...

RichardOnRails

8/2/2008 4:39:00 PM

Hi Luis,

Thanks a lot for your very insightful reply.

> > Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> > more of my stupid mistakes?
> You extracted the source package of Ruby 1.9 and not a Windows binary.

Wow, it was stupid of me not to recognize that :-(

> As part of the One-Click Installer team i didn0t pursue a release of
> 1.9 for Windows since [snip]
> but feel free to disagree with me.

Disagreeing with you would compound my stupidit :-)

> http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/m...
> Look into the development snapshots in the sidebar.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

> On a side note, is not a good practice just extract on top of
> something that was working, you could break it :-P

At least I didn't make that mistake; I only need to restore 1.8.6's
bin path to Window's PATH.

Again, thank you for the education.

Best wishes,
Richard

RichardOnRails

8/2/2008 5:58:00 PM

On Aug 2, 7:48 am, Harry Kakueki <list.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:53 PM, RichardOnRails
>
>
>
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
> > over WinXP-Pro/SP2. I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
> > Window's PATH. All worked well for a good while.
>
> > I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
> > regexps. I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
> > houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin. When
> > the ruby.exe command didn't work, a search of the 1.9 installed
> > revealed the absence of that file.
>
> > Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> > more of my stupid mistakes?
>
> > Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Richard
>
> A post recently (7/28) went through Ruby List that talks about Ruby
> 1.9.0-3 compiled with VC++6..
>
> I am not using Windows and I don't know much more about this.
> But if you are interested, there is a link at my website.
> Now it is the first link at the top.
>
> Harry
>
> --
> A Look into Japanese Ruby List in Englishhttp://www.kakueki.com/ruby...

Hi Harry,

> A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English ...

Thanks for that link, both for the .msi and the site itself: The
combination of English and Japanese is beautifully presented.
(However, I never got beyond "Shogun" in my Japanese education.)

The .msi is exactly what I need. Since the site also provides the MD5
code for the package, I thought it's about time for my to start
checking the download.

If you have the time, could you take a look at my code below which
probably erroneously claims the package doesn't match the MD5 string?

Best wishes,
Richard

# ValidateMD5.rb
# K:\_Projects\Ruby\_Ruby_Techniques\MD5Validataion

require "md5"

file = DATA.gets.chomp
md5_tgt = DATA.gets.chomp
md5_result = MD5.new(file).hexdigest
OK = (md5_result == md5_tgt)
puts "File " + (OK ? "Valid" : "Invalid")

__END__
K:\_Downloads\Ruby\Ruby-1.9.0.msi
9cc8e8a4802f840b192e63f9ee17ab49

RichardOnRails

8/2/2008 6:03:00 PM

RichardOnRails

8/2/2008 6:30:00 PM

On Aug 2, 7:48 am, Harry Kakueki <list.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:53 PM, RichardOnRails
>
>
>
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
> > over WinXP-Pro/SP2. I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
> > Window's PATH. All worked well for a good while.
>
> > I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
> > regexps. I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
> > houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin. When
> > the ruby.exe command didn't work, a search of the 1.9 installed
> > revealed the absence of that file.
>
> > Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> > more of my stupid mistakes?
>
> > Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Richard
>
> A post recently (7/28) went through Ruby List that talks about Ruby
> 1.9.0-3 compiled with VC++6..
>
> I am not using Windows and I don't know much more about this.
> But if you are interested, there is a link at my website.
> Now it is the first link at the top.
>
> Harry
>
> --
> A Look into Japanese Ruby List in Englishhttp://www.kakueki.com/ruby...

OK, Harry,

Just to prove I did it, below is my snippet the validated the .msi.
I know it's no big deal to you, but it's one more small step in the
long path to Ruby/Rails mastery.

I bookmarked your website so I'm sure I'll find other pearls there
from time to time.

Again, thanks and best wishes,
Richard

# ValidateMD5.rb
# K:\_Projects\Ruby\_Ruby_Techniques\MD5Validataion

require "md5"

filename = DATA.gets.chomp
md5_tgt = DATA.gets.chomp
filesize = DATA.gets.chomp.gsub(/,/, "").to_i
content = File.new(filename,"rb").read
puts filesize
puts content.size
md5_result = MD5.new(content).hexdigest
OK = (md5_result == md5_tgt)
puts "File " + (OK ? "Valid" : "Invalid")

__END__
K:\_Downloads\Ruby\Ruby-1.9.0.msi
9cc8e8a4802f840b192e63f9ee17ab49
14,262,272

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