From: Peter Pk Date: 2008-08-20T00:30:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Help with Ruby under cygwin Chris Lowis wrote: > Is it not possible to do > gem install rake > now that you have rubygems installed ? > > Chris It is, but it doesn't install the "rake" command to the /usr/bin area, installing from the package distro using it's supplied setup.rb does. I of course, only found this out after trying both :) I want it under cygwin because some of our existing scripts etc are on cygwin and run on both 'nix boxen and PCs. BTW is there a WIKI for maintaining Ruby/Rake HOWTO docs? I would have loved to find a succinct, complete, and accurate "HOWTO install ruby with rake on windows cygwin". I like many, when starting out, start knowing absolutely nothing about ruby and rake, and the first thing one does when starting anything is "install it". So to promote ruby/rake and prevent the "oh my god this is YO chaotic mess" perception, the initial installation process has to be "reliable" or "one-click" or in a single set of easy non-ambiguous instructions with no "implicit" community or language specific knowledge assumed. It is the gateway to perceiving an propagating system. BTW - so far ruby/rake seems to be what I want a *real* interpreter based "make" to do for creating build automation (and other things). Now I have to convince management that it isn't a chaotic hard to maintain non-standard mess, and need to build a one-click installer to put on our internal web site for the base system, and justify the learning curve. I want this to be a highly effective "ant poison" - I'm getting eaten alive! :) gnu-make is now completely obsolete even though capable, cross platform and "ubiquitous". if for no other reason than it doesn't handle paths with spaces in them. But it also lacks programmability and modular maintainability for large build systems. PK -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.