Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows • Hacker News Board

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by rue » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 7:43 PM UTC

trustfundbaby wrote: post #11

jrnkntl wrote: post #5

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 :)

Ruby 1.9.1 segfaults with rails 3 and 1.9.2 is in a state of flux? maybe?

1.9.2 is stable. It, apparently, doesn't work perfectly on Windows though.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by dickeytk » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 8:39 PM UTC

I thought rails was a pain to set up until I got a mac. That's not an advertisement for osx though, it's just what rails is catered for. I would love to see better support on other platforms. This includes linux, it's easier than osx, but there are still issues.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by getsat » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 8:39 PM UTC

drnicwilliams wrote: post #27

getsat wrote: post #26

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If you're on a mac, you already have rails and ruby 1.8.6 (osx 10.5) or 1.8.7 (osx 10.6). Just sudo gem update to get the latest version and you're good to go.

ruby 1.8.7 is required for Rails 3; so Leopard/10.5 users need to install ruby 1.8.7 manually to get started as if they didn't have ruby installed at all, I think.

Good point. I've been on 1.9 for so long I'd forgotten about the 1.8.7 requirement for Rails 3.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by clark-kent » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 9:54 PM UTC

So this is a new version of InstantRails (http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl), good to see the project was continued.

It was how i started with Rails and Ruby on Windows. After I got addicted I switched to Ubuntu.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by trustfundbaby » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 10:21 PM UTC

rue wrote: post #31

trustfundbaby wrote: post #11

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Ruby 1.9.1 segfaults with rails 3 and 1.9.2 is in a state of flux? maybe?

1.9.2 is stable. It, apparently, doesn't work perfectly on Windows though.

Exactly ... I had this same problem on windows trying to run Rails and I just assumed it was still being worked on. My mistake.

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

rue wrote: post #31

trustfundbaby wrote: post #11

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Ruby 1.9.1 segfaults with rails 3 and 1.9.2 is in a state of flux? maybe?

1.9.2 is stable. It, apparently, doesn't work perfectly on Windows though.

All of my Hackety problems on Windows? Ruby 1.9.1. Works great on Linux and Mac. Windows... not so much.

Working on the 1.9.2 port, but it's just not that simple...

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by rohitarondekar » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 4:15 AM UTC

drnicwilliams wrote: post #27

getsat wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're on a mac, you already have rails and ruby 1.8.6 (osx 10.5) or 1.8.7 (osx 10.6). Just sudo gem update to get the latest version and you're good to go.

ruby 1.8.7 is required for Rails 3; so Leopard/10.5 users need to install ruby 1.8.7 manually to get started as if they didn't have ruby installed at all, I think.

Actually ruby 1.8.7 is required to install ruby 1.9.2. Rails doesn't need 1.8.7 and works fine with just ruby 1.9.2 installed.

  ruby - Ruby itself is prerequisite in order to build Ruby 1.9. It can be 1.8.

source: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/wiki/ruby/DeveloperHowto#label-...

Re: Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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Post by getsat » Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 12:34 PM UTC

rohitarondekar wrote: post #37

drnicwilliams wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ruby 1.8.7 is required for Rails 3; so Leopard/10.5 users need to install ruby 1.8.7 manually to get started as if they didn't have ruby installed at all, I think.

Actually ruby 1.8.7 is required to install ruby 1.9.2. Rails doesn't need 1.8.7 and works fine with just ruby 1.9.2 installed. ruby - Ruby itself is prerequisite in order to build Ruby 1.9. It can be 1.8. source: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/wiki/ruby/DeveloperHowto#label-...

If you install via RVM, you don't need a system ruby or anything else installed for bootstrapping.

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/deployment/system-wide/