From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T04:14:39+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?
> TIA.

A new version of the one-click installer is released whenever there is
a new release of Ruby (there was an exception for Ruby 1.8.3 because
of bugs that it contained).

If what you want is the latest updates from Ruby's CVS repository,
then you'd have to build it yourself.

Curt