From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T07:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing erb under W2K

barry wrote:

> Hello,
>     I am an absolute nuby at Ruby   ( starting it a little over a week
> ago ) and got the dbi.  I was able to make GUIs and connect to an
> Oracle database, making standard calls to create, drop, select and
> insert.
>     How do I insert Ruby into a webpage so that web access would allow
> showing and changing database data through the normal HTML forms?  The
> manual "Pragmatic Programmer" discusses only eRuby.  I am using W2K
> and Oracle 8i.  From my reading it seems that mod_ruby would do what I
> want, but it doesn't exist for Windows.  Erb seems like a candidate,
> and I've found "erb" and "erb.bat" on my system, but I need a tutorial
> on setting it up and using it.  I also went to
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/erb and tried an install, but the
> samples don't work.  Can anybody step me through the install, proper
> directories for library and rhtml, etc.?
>  
>     Thanks,
>         Barry

Not sure which version you installed.

Try this page for the best Windows versions of ruby.

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167

More specifically, I'd install this version at the moment:

1.8.2-14_rc3.exe