From: Clifford Heath Date: 2005-12-24T13:32:51+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Instant Rails 1.0 preview7 -- with Typo! Curt, My thanks for putting IR together. After the "fun" I had trying to get it working on Debian last year, I was torn about recommending Rails to my son. He's now installed IRp7 and it's fantastic to have a bundle with Apache, MySQL, RoR, etc all pre-configured. I'm writing this for him as he's just moved house and has no connectivity yet. So thanks! Unfortunately he's still having a few problems with it. I had a little play with his install last night and couldn't figure out how to diagnose them. The mycookbook app creates its console window, and if you de- iconify it quickly enough, you get a glimpse of a "not found" error with a Ruby backtrace before the window vanishes. Is there any logfile or global exception catcher that saves the error text? Impossible to diagnose the problem when it vanishes! He mentioned that you haven't worked out how to create an invisible console window. I don't know if that's a Ruby problem, but at the Windows API level, you have to use the "ShowWindow" option in the STARTUPINFO structure that you pass as the ninth parameter to CreateProcess. Set wShowWindow to SW_HIDE and set dwFlags to include STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW, and the command window won't display. However, I do recommend that for debugging purposes, you allow the window to be optionally displayed - and preferably to catch an exception and allow it to be read before the window closes! Happy Saturnalia, everyone! Clifford Heath.