From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-07-08T21:56:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: Remote installer

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 14:41, G. Ralph Kuntz, MD, MS <grk@usa.net> wrote:
> I am looking for a "remote installer" for ruby for Windows. I need to
> install ruby on about 150 machines over ssh connections and do not
> want to use a GUI installer like the one-click installer, because it
> will take me days to finish and will add an extra human step for each
> new machine I deploy.
>
> I tried using the binary zip files, both for 1.8.6 (ruby-1.8.6-i386-
> mswin32.zip) and 1.8.7, but I get errors about zlib.dll when I try to
> install rubygems.
>
> I cannot use the cygwin version for various reasons.
>
> I am new to ruby, so please bear with my ignorance.
>
> Thanks, Ralph

I guess that if you:

-copy c:/ruby contents from One-click installation
-run
assoc .rb=RBFile
ftype RBFile="c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" %1 %*
-the same for .rbw
-add c:\ruby\bin to PATH
-create env. variable RUBYOPT=-rubygems

you are pretty much set (maybe you need to register some dlls/paths
for tcl/tk and similar)

Anyway, the silent options seems safer.

J.