From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2010-02-21T21:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Running two versions of Ruby - Lessons Learned

Alex DeCaria wrote:
> After experimenting with Ruby 1.9 I've found I really like it and wanted
> to make it my main version of Ruby.  My problem was that I have two
> programs that I use frequently that only work with Ruby 1.8.  I want my
> programs to run just by clicking the icons on my Windows desktop.
> However, when setting the default application for an icon, Windows
> forces you to choose between running all the .rb programs using either
> 1.9 or 1.8 (you can't set some to default to 1.9 and others to default
> with 1.8 as far as I can tell).(...)
> 

> --Alex

If you have (or create) on your desktop a shortcut to your .rb file, you 
can edit the properties of this shortcut. On the tab "shortcut" the 
entry "target" will contain the path to your .rb file. Modify this to: 
"path\to\ruby1.8\bin\ruby.exe path\to\rb".

hth,

Siep
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