From: Trevor Andrade <trevor.andrade@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T07:47:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.2-14 RC8 for Windows

Hello,

There was a feature that I used to want in Perl, that was somewhat difficult
to do.  I wanted to be able to drop text files onto a ruby script in windows
and have the ruby script automatically executed either with the text files
as standard input or as command line arugments.  This feature is difficult
to add since you need to know some visual c++ and windows programming.  I am
just wondering if there are any windows programmers on this list who might
have some ideas about this.

Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Horneber [mailto:ryco@gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:53 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.2-14 RC8 for Windows


Hi!

First of all, thanks for the effort, it's really appreciated! :)

Still, I'd like to see some features and have some issues:

Being the lazy guy that I am, I like to create new files by using the
'new' command in explorers context menu. So, in order to create a new
ruby programm, I right-click in the folder I'd like to have the new file
in, choose new, choose new ruby programm, and explorer generates an
empty file 'new ruby program.rb' (or something alike). Any chance to
have an option for this in the installer?
(you'd need to create a new key 'ShellNew' under 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rb'
and add an emtpy REG_SZ (String Value) named NullFile. Of course I could
always do it by hand, but as I said, I'm lazy :-)  )

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/shellnewadd.htm has a pretty good
explanation how to do it by hand



And I'm having troubles selecting the installation directory. The
'browse'-option allows me to create new folders, but does not allow to
select this newly created folder (the 'Ok'-button stays disabled ). I
have to type the folder into the field to have the installer accept it.
(Yikes, typing!)

I'm using Win 2k :-)

Sorry if this did come up before, I wasn't able to find anything on the
list or in the installer-wiki.

Henrik