From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-10-16T04:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Standard Environment

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Am 15.10.2010 20:40, schrieb Don Norcott:
> But I would like to know what gems people have loaded for a typical
> install.  

I think which gems one has installed depends on which are needed. I just
have very few gems I always install ontop of a new Ruby installation,
the others come when they are needed. They usual way is to query
Rubygems.org's search function with a topic and pick one of the
resulting gems.
The few gems I usually install are these ones:

* hanna: I really hate that standard Darkfish output. hanna looks much
nicer (and I hope it will be updated sometime...)
* RedCloth: I write many things in Textile and format the resulting HTML.
* coderay: When I write about coding, I need a powerful syntax highlighter.
* redcar: Programming editor
* test-unit: Yeah, I'm still using it...
* term-ansicolor: For colored console output (works on windows only in
combination with win32-console)
* wxruby-ruby19: For GUI development

But as I'm developing  many different things, the number of installed
gems grows and currently I have 30 gems installed. The most ones are
dependencies of other gems, though.
> 
> I am sure there are many gems I could benefit from if I knew what they
> were.  What other gems would typically be installed and what packages
> are installed by other than a gem install (download windows binaries).

Nearly every piece of Ruby library software is available as a gem. On
Windows, you should install the RubyInstaller Devkit to get access to
all of them.
Beside gems, I only download a C extension's external dependencies for
Ruby.

> One of the reasons I am asking is that a gem I wanted to install
> required libxml2. I Installed libxml-ruby (1.1.4 ruby x86-mswin32-60)
> and the install process determined that zlib was missing (suspect a few
> others as well)  When I looked at the libxml2 make file it appeared to
> be for a ruby 1.8 install.

zlib shouldn't be missing. Where did you get your Ruby from? The
standard RubyInstaller ( http://rubyinstaller.org ) ships with zlib
precompiled for Windows.

> I then did some digging around and found dll,lib and header files
> available pre-built.  Rather than installing the gem and this appears to
> be the route for me to take (but how would I know the gem build was for
> 1.8? without looking at the make file or is this is fine for 1.92 as
> well)



> I am thinking of perhaps uninstalling and re-installing Ruby mostly to
> get a better directory structure.  Should I perhaps be dropping back to
> Ruby 1.8 for better compatibility?.

Although I mainly work on my Ubuntu Linux system, 1.9.2-p0 works fine
for me on Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bits.
As I asked above: Where did you get your Ruby from? The mswin32-build is
not the normal way to go on Windows anymore, switch to the mingw32 build
from the RubyInstaller team.

> Thanks Don
> 

Vale,
Marvin
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