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Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by bphogan » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:05 PM UTC

Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows
railsinstaller.org

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by petercooper » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:35 PM UTC

From http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-installer-ruby-and-rails-on-... (which I worked on with Wayne), I just wanted to repeat a key point:

I've been speaking to Wayne and in the long term he will extend the RailsInstaller site with more information on where to go next and links to tutorials, etc, but for now he wants RailsInstaller.org to be the #1 "go to" site for budding Windows-based Rails developers. To help with this, he's keen for people to link to http://railsinstaller.org/ with the text Rails Windows Installer - making it more likely to come up if people Google for "rails windows" and similar.

Being on sites like HN will probably do most of the work but Wayne & RVM have been significant credits to the Ruby world in the last year so if you have the opportunity to link it up, please do! I'm going to get a link on Ruby Inside ASAP..

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by drnicwilliams » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:54 PM UTC

My feature wish: I hope for ANSI colors. Oooh, I want pretty colors enabled by default.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by bryanbibat » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

drnicwilliams wrote: post #3

My feature wish: I hope for ANSI colors. Oooh, I want pretty colors enabled by default.

the closest we can get to ANSI color support is ANSICON http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon/index.html

Here's what it looks like with Rspec: http://www.bryanbibat.net/images/rspec-haml.png

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by jrnkntl » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

I am sure there is a good reason for choosing Ruby 1.8.7-p* instead of 1.9.*, but I'd like to know that reason :)

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by milesf » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:17 PM UTC

The coderpath podcast (http://coderpath.com) will be interviewing Wayne and Dr. Nic later today (January 18th/2011 @ 4pm PST). If you would like the host of coderpath to ask them a question about the Rails Installer, add your questions here: http://titanpad.com/r8CWyBBA4T

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by empire29 » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:18 PM UTC

Very cool - I have yet to try it out, but if its as easy as the video suggests, this could be a boon for ruby/rails. I've made several attempts at introducing .NET developer friends to Ruby/Rails, but they've given up, due to frustration preparing the environment on their Windows boxes -- Hopefully this will help change that experience.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by tomhallett » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

As far as easing pains for Windows development in a corporate environment, I don't see this as a silver bullet because of the poor support for mswin32 gems. BUT for Rails being taught in the classroom and other developers testing out Rails on the weekend - this could be a game changer.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by notsosmart » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:24 PM UTC

I'm just learning ROR from an online tutorial (http://railstutorial.org/), and I wish I had this last week. For newbies like myself, I think installing the framework is sometimes such a big hurdle, it pushes one to give up early. Which is unfortunate, because I read the real challenges happen a few weeks in.

I had a weird issue where I had to reinstall xcode from the OS X DVD. Took a bit of Googling to figure that one out.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by migmartri » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

What are the differences between RailsInstaller and RubyStack ?

http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack