From: John Lam <drjflam@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T06:15:46+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

There's some folks out there (I forget who at the moment) who are
working on getting Rails to run natively on top of http.sys - so you
don't even need IIS - you just need XP SP2 which installs http.sys by
default. That's great for XP dev so you don't need IIS to be installed
on your XP install.

-John
http://www.iunknown.com


On 9/1/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> 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."
>
>
>