From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T05:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> I didn't answer your other questions...
> 
> You can install both IR and OCI. Whether or not this makes sense
> really depends on what you do with Ruby. With OCI, you get things like
> start menu entries and filetype associations. At some point we'll
> implement an IR command that will create these same registry entries
> on request.
> 
> If you install both, you might need to remember to install extensions
> and RubyGems in both copies of Ruby (unless you specifically wanted a
> particular package only in one of them).
Yeah, that's what I meant by shooting myself in the foot. I suppose if
Windows did everything I need in a native manner, I wouldn't need
CygWin, VMware Server running Gentoo, ActiveState Perl, Python and Tcl,
etc. :)

In the long run, I think Instant Rails (including Mongrel, of course)
plus the start menu entries and filetype associations with options not
to install MySQL and Apache is the way to go. Apache is overkill for the
applications I'm going to build, and my environment strongly prefers SQL
Server and PostgreSQL over MySQL. So I can get where I want to go by
loading OCI and doing "gem install rails", or by installing IR and
ignoring MySQL and Apache.

Does Rails work with IIS? That's another "strong environmental preference."