From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T16:13:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Instant Rails 1.0 preview7 -- with Typo!

See the first entry in the FAQ:

  http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FAQ

I think this same problem is happenning with the cookbook app.
Arrrrggg... I gotta get a new release out with this fixed.

Curt

PS
   Glad you like Instant Rails!

On 12/23/05, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>