From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-01-29T11:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Alexander Kellett wrote:
>
> On Jan 28, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Ian Hobson wrote:
> > If you want Ruby to succeed Ruby and its killer application (Which
> > appears to be rails) must be "plug and play", for 99.9% of users. That
> > takes care, effort and diligence.
>
> it takes one windows user to do some work.
> and the rest can profit.
> i don't really understand why noone has just created an all in one .exe.
> but i love my mac and my webrick install.
> so i don't care :)

I'm working on it.

We already have the One-Click Ruby Installer for windows client side
development. I am working on a One-Click Ruby Server for windows that will
include ruby, apache, mysql and rails (possibly some more packages).
However, its still a few months off from a first release.

Curt