From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T07:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on WinXP (was Debugging wxruby programs.)

James Britt wrote:
>
> 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.

The One-Click Ruby Installer only adds the associations for the ruby file
extensions.

Curt