From: Mason Kelsey <masonkelsey@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T02:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: One-click Windows installer for Ruby 1.9.

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You wrote,
"* Adding Ruby to the PATH requires administrative privileges. The
installer doesn't ask for them to be safely installed into corporate
environments.

"* It doesn't associate .rb or .rbw files because changes in the
registry related to file associations ALSO require administrative
privileges"

I'm puzzled.  The download and installation of Ruby 1.8 for me did those two
things without any action by me.
So why cannot 1.9 do it?  What changed?

Mason

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 19, 10:26 am, Peter Bailey <pbai...@bna.com> wrote:
> > Roger Pack wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know when they're be a one-click installer for Ruby 1.9? I
> > >> really don't trust the .zip file that's on the Ruby site now. There's
> no
> > >> real install script for it. I'm too dumb to do any kind of "manual"
> > >> install, I guess.
> >
> > > Check outhttp://rubyinstaller.org/
> > > "technology preview"
> > > looks like the hard working OCI guys have almost got it all up there.
> > > -r
> >
> > I tried this Ruby, and, I have to say, it leaves something to be
> > desired. It doesn't do a complete install, meaning, it doesn't put Ruby
> > in the path and it doesn't do an association of .rb with Ruby. Also, I
> > just can't get Ruby 1.9 to work properly with all of my gems and stuff,
> > so, I've just gone back to 1.8.
>
> Sorry for not fulfilling your expectations and our hard work is not up
> to your "desired" standards.
>
> To answer your _issues_:
>
> * Adding Ruby to the PATH requires administrative privileges. The
> installer doesn't ask for them to be safely installed into corporate
> environments.
>
> * It doesn't associate .rb or .rbw files because changes in the
> registry related to file associations ALSO require administrative
> privileges
>
> * Ruby 1.9 is not meant to be compatible with Ruby 1.8, that is a
> fact, and everybody knows about it.
>
> Please refer to the FAQ for other questions that you may have:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/faq
>
> If you want something different, please, be my guest and fork the
> project, patches are always welcome.
>
> --
> Luis Lavena
>
>

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