From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T11:24:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Does one-click install leave other installs intact?

Unftunately you would have to reinstall them. Once everything is
available as RubyGems, that shouldn't be too much a problem, but I
know its a bit of a pain now.

Curt

On 8/2/06, bradjpeek <bradjpeek@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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