From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T19:49:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird: Just unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip -- no Ruby.exe

On Aug 2, 7:54 am, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running ruby186-26_rc2 installed from ruby186-26_rc2.exe
> over WinXP-Pro/SP2.  I manually installed a the path of ruby.exe in
> Window's PATH.  All worked well for a good while.
>
> I decided to upgrade to 1.9 because I wanted look-behind in Ruby
> regexps.  I unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip into the same directory that
> houses 1.8.6-rc2 and adjusted the PATH to point to the 1.9 bin.  When
> the ruby.exe command didn't work,  a search of the 1.9 installed
> revealed the absence of that file.
>
> Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> more of my stupid mistakes?
>
> Thanks in advance for any guidance you may offer.
>

Hello Richard,

You extracted the source package of Ruby 1.9 and not a Windows binary.

As part of the One-Click Installer team i didn0t pursue a release of
1.9 for Windows since:

# 1.9 is developer oriented and not end user, the availability of the
package will make a lot of user try to upgrade and break their setups.

# 1.9 introduce changes that require a deeper analysis of the gems and
extensions bundled with One-Click installer which will require a lot
of time, besides depending on external development teams to provide
the updated versions (which most of them are under development).

I think those two points are good ones, but feel free to disagree with
me.

If you're really interested in 1.9 binaries, you can grab the windows
barebone version from garbagecollect:

http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/

Look into the development snapshots in the sidebar.

Also you will find a good reading over there.

On a side note, is not a good practice just extract on top of
something that was working, you could break it :-P

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena