From: zdennis Date: 2006-04-19T08:02:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Is anyone doing serious dev using the one-click Ruby? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 4/18/06, David Reynolds 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 the > one-click installer. > > PDF::Writer, Diff::LCS, Archive::Tar::Minitar, Ruwiki, Text::Format, > Text::Hyphen, etc. were all written on Win32 with the one-click > installer. I haven't yet updated to 1.8.4, but it works and works > well. > When I work remotely on my winlaptop i use the oneclick installer supplied version of Ruby. It is also installed on all of our windows workstations for folks who are just endusers. Zach -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFERXE9Myx0fW1d8G0RAsjcAJ9eEVxcbxxjdHfbGv8YURoUZqpMogCY6toC 2Mhf4Ya8CoHN2pNx/5xu7w== =hBcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----