From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T01:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird: Just unzipped ruby-1.9.0-2.zip -- no Ruby.exe

Hi Luis,

Thanks a lot for your very insightful reply.


> > Did I grab the wrong package for this installation, or is just one
> > more of my stupid mistakes?
> You extracted the source package of Ruby 1.9 and not a Windows binary.

Wow,  it was stupid of me not to recognize that :-(

> As part of the One-Click Installer team i didn0t pursue a release of
> 1.9 for Windows since [snip]
> but feel free to disagree with me.

Disagreeing with you would compound my stupidit :-)

> http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/
> Look into the development snapshots in the sidebar.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

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

At least I didn't make that mistake; I only need to restore 1.8.6's
bin path to Window's PATH.

Again,  thank you for the education.

Best wishes,
Richard