From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T01:16:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anyone doing serious dev using the one-click Ruby?

On 4/18/06, David Reynolds <dr-groups@fantast.com> wrote:> I'm getting started with Rails on Windows and really like the> convenience of the one-click Ruby installer but the stable releases are> too few and far between -- only about once a year it seems -- which> means you get stuck with an old version of Ruby.> Is there an easy way to patch it while waiting between stable releases?> Or is the one-click version of Ruby just a convenient tool for newbies> on Windows and not recommended for serious Ruby development? (A few> things I've found that don't work have also given me this impression.)> If not the one-click installer, what? One of the other binaries for> Windows? Or is the problem endemic to all win32 binaries, and the best> course is to work on linux?
I develop exclusively (at least for right now) on Win32 with theone-click installer.
PDF::Writer, Diff::LCS, Archive::Tar::Minitar, Ruwiki, Text::Format,Text::Hyphen, etc. were all written on Win32 with the one-clickinstaller. I haven't yet updated to 1.8.4, but it works and workswell.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca