From: bradjpeek <bradjpeek@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T07:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Does one-click install leave other installs intact?

Thanks for your response Curt...

Just to clarify;  I installed 1.8.4-20 via one-click.   If/when
1.8.4-22 comes out would that be considered a new version?  And, more
to the point, would it cause me to need to reinstall Ruport, OCI8, and
any other add-on's ?

In any event, it sounds like a good idea to keep track of these
add-on's since it's just a matter of time before they'll need to be
reinstalled.

P.S.  Thanks for your willingness to help make Ruby a success.  I
became interested after reading an article on Rails, and I've quickly
become a fan.

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> You can have multiple versions installed simultaneously (or even
> multiple copies of the same version) -- they just need to be installed
> in separate directories. Of course, only one at a time can have its
> "bin" directory on the system path, so this is the one that gets used
> by default.
>
> Extensions (including all RubyGems) are stored within the Ruby
> directory tree, so they need to be installed separately for each
> instance of Ruby.
>
> On 8/2/06, navinsamuel@gmail.com <navinsamuel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My guess is that you will have to. When I upgraded to 1.8.4 from 1.8.2,
> > the installer asked me to remove my previous version. With that, I lost
> > all my installed gems and had to start from scratch. I am aware of any
> > other way to do this.
> >
> >
> > bradjpeek wrote:
> > > In the process of learning Ruby, so this is a newbie question....
> > >
> > > I used the one-click (windows) Ruby install to install Ruby 1.8.4 and
> > > afterwards I installed other Ruby classes such as OCI8 and Ruport.   If
> > > I use the one-click install to get a newer version of Ruby, will I need
> > > to reinstall the other packages as well?
> > >
> > > In case it matters, Ruport was installed via "gem", while OCI8 had its
> > > own install script.
> >
> >
> >