From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T07:31:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on WinXP (was Debugging wxruby programs.)

Bill Guindon wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:59:10 +0900, Cristi BALAN <mental@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm using the oneclick installer and it already sets .rb files to be
>>automatically ran. I also noticed it sets another thing beside what
>>you mention.
>>PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.RB;.RBW


I've turned off some of these associations as I tend not to want just 
any script executing by default.  Ruby scripts still run this way, but 
no VBS or JS.  This as more of an issue when I used MS Outlook, as a way 
to help prevent automatic launching of scripts hidden in E-mail.

If the one-click installer is doing *anything* other than installing 
Ruby, and setting file associations for Ruby scripts and Ruby file 
extensions, it shouldn't.

(I've also set the default application association for most script types 
to be gvim rather than any interpreter.)


James