From: David Roberts <smartgpx@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T22:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: freeride under windows (totally newbie question)

Alexey Kalmykov wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've downloaded Ruby One-Click installer (ruby185-21.exe), and tried to
> run freeride IDE. As the result I've got a console window with infinite
> stream of error messages like this:
> 

from another relative newbie...

1.
ruby185-21.exe is not the most recent Ruby One-Click installer, there is 
a later version where this problem *may* be resolved. (I haven't tried 
it - I think freeride is not part of that release - see below.)

2.
you *don't* get an 'infinite' stream of error messages: if you wait for 
the package to load you will find that the messages, which are warnings 
not errors, will stop. After that the editor works fine: your 
installation is not 'broken'.

3.
the problem is common to all applications that use a particular version 
of the fxruby gui library with a particular version of the ruby 
interpreter - it is ugly and worrying for newcomers, but it is well 
documented and can't be fixed retrospectively - in time it will go away.

4.
as others have said, you don't actually *need* freeride - I have found 
Scite to be fine as a development environment for the sort of ruby work 
I want to do under windows.

Good luck

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