From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-09-28T01:44:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem update on Windows is broken?

On Sep 27, 7:11 am, Charles Roper <reac...@charlesroper.co.uk> wrote:
> Roger Pack wrote:
> > You could also try mingw ruby:
> >http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/7/26/still-playing-with-ruby-on-windows
>
> > A little edgey, but hey :)
>
> Cool, thanks. I had no idea the new mingw version had come so far.
> Where's the best place to track progress on it?
>
> Do you think now is the time to switch or does it still feel a little
> *too* edgey? If it's usable, but could do with testing help, I'd be more
> that happy to help with that effort.
>

OCI based on MinGW even is edgy I use on a daily basis, but be warned:

You will require install what we call the development kit, which is
MinGW (GCC) and, as any *nix OS, you will require the libraries and
the headers for the extensions that depend on externals, like SQLite3
or MySQL.

Last time I tried to build sqlite3-ruby for MinGW (or even VC6) had a
lot of troubles (and didn't find time to play again).

MySQL, on the other hand, has binaries, also win32console:

gem list --source http://gems.rubyinstaller.org

> As a side note, it's good to see you're using E Text Editor. Awesome
> editor, eh? Did you see the new snippet pipes feature that was recently
> rolled in? Here's a post I made about it to the CSS Discuss list with a
> bunch of screencasts:
>
> http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/101947
>

I use Intype, E-Text is too much clone of TextMate :-P

:-D

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena