One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available!

ruby-talk
1

=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.

As usual, please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

Curt

== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! ==

*NOTE* Please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

*WARNING* This preview release for Windows is incomplete. Please read
below to find out what is missing, and don't install this if that is
not usable for you.

This is a preview release of the One-Click installer for Ruby version
1.8.4. It should be usable for most people, but it is missing a few
things that will be fixed before the final release:

  - DBI: (database interface library) is not included.

  - XMLParser: This C-based XML parser (which is an
    interface to the Expat parser) is not included
    (REXML, the pure Ruby XML parser, *is* included).

  - If you levave "Enable RubyGems" selected, the RUBYOPT
    environment variable is set to "rubygem" instead of
    having having "rubygems" added to the RUBYOPT value
    (similarly, uninstalling, deletes the RUBYOPT env.
    variable).

  - Uninstalling does not remove the start menu items.

···

=================

Starting with this release, I have completely rewritten the build
system for the One-Click Installer while I repeated the mantra:
simplify, simplify, simplify... This should make it easier to release
future versions of the One-Click installer more quickly. Of course,
its possible that this could introduce new problems, so please report
them here:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=167&atid=715

Of course, the big change for this release is that it uses Ruby 1.8.4.
The One-Click installer is now uses ruby-mswin32 and adds additional
extentions and applications. This means that all extension provided by
ruby-mswin32 are in the One-Click Installer. You can read about
ruby-mswin32 here:

  http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/

Everything has been compiled with MS VC++ 6.0.

Here are some other notable changes:

* The SciTE code editor has been replaced by Notepad++. Both
  are based on the Scintilla code editor component, but Notepad++
  is a little more full featured and supports editing multiple
  files in separate tabs.

* FreeRIDE (the Free Ruby IDE) has been updated to 0.9.5 and now
  features real project support.

* FXRuby has been upgraded to 1.4.3 (final release will include
  1.4.4). This also, still includes FXRuby 1.2.6 for those programs
  that still require the older version. Both are included as
  preinstalled RubyGems.

Below are the release notes.

======================================

                            Ruby Installer for Windows
                               Ruby Version 1.8.4
                              Installer Version 184-16
                         ------------------------------
                                 RELEASE NOTES
                         ------------------------------

                         Contents: Version:
                         -------- --------

                         ruby-mswin32 1.8.4
                         zlib-lib 1.2.1
                         ZLib 0.6.0
                         RubyGems 0.8.11
                         Rake 0.7.0
                         RubySrc 1.8.4
                         FXRuby 1.2.6
                         FXri 0.3.2
                         FreeRIDE 0.9.5
                         Notepad++ 3.4
                         FXRuby 1.4.3
                         OpenGL 0.23b
                         GLUT 3.7.6
                         SWin 040314
                         VRuby 040306
                         Expat 1.95.8
                         HTMLParser 19990912p2
                         log4r 1.0.5
                         Programming Ruby 1st Edition
                         OpenSSL 0.9.7b-1
                         Iconv 1.8
                         readline 4.3-2
                         PDCurses 2.60-1
                         GDBM 1.8.3-1
                         Installer-Patches 1.8.4

1. You can install overtop of an existing installation that has
the same Ruby major version number (e.g., 1.6). Installations
up to and including 1.6.5-1 can only be uninstalled. All versions
can co-exist peacefully (DLL's willing) in separate directories.

2. This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++, not Cygwin.
As a result, some I/O functionality -- particularly those involving
the Unix fork() system call and pipes -- will not work. The benefit
of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby.

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Bugs in Ruby itself should be e-mailed to ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org.

Bugs in the installer should be reported at:

   http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group_id=167&func=browse

Make sure your problem has not already been reported, then click
on "Submit New" to create a new bug report.

Disclaimer
----------

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Credits:
--------

    Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz <matz@netlab.co.jp> created
    Ruby in the first place.

    Andy Hunt <andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com> did the original packaging
    of this installer using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).

    Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> has been maintaining the one-click
    installer since it moved to RubyForge.org in early 2004.

    Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> translated
    the original LaTeX of "Programming Ruby" into XML
    and arranged its release under the Open Publication License.

    Bernard Delmée <bdelmee@advalvas.be> created the Windows Help
    version of our "Programming Ruby" book.

    Martin Ankerl <martin.ankerl@gmail.com> created fxri, a GUI
    interface to the ri documentation database.

    Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> created fxirb, a GUI
    version of Ruby's console based irb (interactive ruby). fxirb
    is incorporated into Martin Ankerl's fxri.

    Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> ported and provides the
    FXRuby GUI extension.

2

Just wanted to inject a quick thanks to the folks who are providing
RubyForge file and gem mirrors; they're now serving about 22 GB of data
per day:

http://rubyforge.org/credits/

Yours,

Tom

···

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 08:32 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:

Credits:
--------

    Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz <matz@netlab.co.jp> created
    Ruby in the first place.

    Andy Hunt <andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com> did the original packaging
    of this installer using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).

    Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> has been maintaining the one-click
    installer since it moved to RubyForge.org in early 2004.

3

FXRI doesn't appear to work correctly.

If you select a method entry in the left pane, it sends stuff like the following to the IRB window.

irb(main):001:0> Abbrev#abbrev, Abbrev#abbrev
Abbrev#abbrev, Abbrev#abbrev
Array::[], Array::[]
Abbrev#abbrev, Abbrev#abbrev
Array::[], Array::[]

If you select a class from the left pane, the top pane shows the doc.

···

--
J. Lambert

4

It was just reported and verified that "fxri" is not working properly.
Clicking on a class display its documentation (like it is supposed
to), but clicking on a method does not display the documentation.

Also (this should have been in the release notes), previous versions
of the One-Click Installer contained an (old) version of Tcl/Tk. Now
this installer only contains the Ruby bindings to whatever version of
Tcl/Tk you wish to install. ActiveTcl would be a good choice:

  Download & Install Tcl | ActiveState

Curt

···

On 1/30/06, Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote:

=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.

As usual, please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

Curt

== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! ==

*NOTE* Please wait for the RubyForge mirrors to synchronize before
trying to download.

*WARNING* This preview release for Windows is incomplete. Please read
below to find out what is missing, and don't install this if that is
not usable for you.

This is a preview release of the One-Click installer for Ruby version
1.8.4. It should be usable for most people, but it is missing a few
things that will be fixed before the final release:

- DBI: (database interface library) is not included.

- XMLParser: This C-based XML parser (which is an
   interface to the Expat parser) is not included
   (REXML, the pure Ruby XML parser, *is* included).

- If you levave "Enable RubyGems" selected, the RUBYOPT
   environment variable is set to "rubygem" instead of
   having having "rubygems" added to the RUBYOPT value
   (similarly, uninstalling, deletes the RUBYOPT env.
   variable).

- Uninstalling does not remove the start menu items.

=================

Starting with this release, I have completely rewritten the build
system for the One-Click Installer while I repeated the mantra:
simplify, simplify, simplify... This should make it easier to release
future versions of the One-Click installer more quickly. Of course,
its possible that this could introduce new problems, so please report
them here:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?group_id=167&atid=715

Of course, the big change for this release is that it uses Ruby 1.8.4.
The One-Click installer is now uses ruby-mswin32 and adds additional
extentions and applications. This means that all extension provided by
ruby-mswin32 are in the One-Click Installer. You can read about
ruby-mswin32 here:

Index of /ruby/mswin32/en

Everything has been compiled with MS VC++ 6.0.

Here are some other notable changes:

* The SciTE code editor has been replaced by Notepad++. Both
are based on the Scintilla code editor component, but Notepad++
is a little more full featured and supports editing multiple
files in separate tabs.

* FreeRIDE (the Free Ruby IDE) has been updated to 0.9.5 and now
features real project support.

* FXRuby has been upgraded to 1.4.3 (final release will include
1.4.4). This also, still includes FXRuby 1.2.6 for those programs
that still require the older version. Both are included as
preinstalled RubyGems.

Below are the release notes.

======================================

                           Ruby Installer for Windows
                              Ruby Version 1.8.4
                             Installer Version 184-16
                        ------------------------------
                                RELEASE NOTES
                        ------------------------------

                        Contents: Version:
                        -------- --------

                        ruby-mswin32 1.8.4
                        zlib-lib 1.2.1
                        ZLib 0.6.0
                        RubyGems 0.8.11
                        Rake 0.7.0
                        RubySrc 1.8.4
                        FXRuby 1.2.6
                        FXri 0.3.2
                        FreeRIDE 0.9.5
                        Notepad++ 3.4
                        FXRuby 1.4.3
                        OpenGL 0.23b
                        GLUT 3.7.6
                        SWin 040314
                        VRuby 040306
                        Expat 1.95.8
                        HTMLParser 19990912p2
                        log4r 1.0.5
                        Programming Ruby 1st Edition
                        OpenSSL 0.9.7b-1
                        Iconv 1.8
                        readline 4.3-2
                        PDCurses 2.60-1
                        GDBM 1.8.3-1
                        Installer-Patches 1.8.4

1. You can install overtop of an existing installation that has
the same Ruby major version number (e.g., 1.6). Installations
up to and including 1.6.5-1 can only be uninstalled. All versions
can co-exist peacefully (DLL's willing) in separate directories.

2. This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++, not Cygwin.
As a result, some I/O functionality -- particularly those involving
the Unix fork() system call and pipes -- will not work. The benefit
of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby.

Reporting Bugs
--------------

Bugs in Ruby itself should be e-mailed to ruby-bugs@ruby-lang.org.

Bugs in the installer should be reported at:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group_id=167&func=browse

Make sure your problem has not already been reported, then click
on "Submit New" to create a new bug report.

Disclaimer
----------

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Credits:
--------

   Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a Matz <matz@netlab.co.jp> created
   Ruby in the first place.

   Andy Hunt <andy@pragmaticprogrammer.com> did the original packaging
   of this installer using the Nullsoft installer (www.nullsoft.com).

   Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> has been maintaining the one-click
   installer since it moved to RubyForge.org in early 2004.

   Dave Thomas <dave@pragmaticprogrammer.com> translated
   the original LaTeX of "Programming Ruby" into XML
   and arranged its release under the Open Publication License.

   Bernard Delmée <bdelmee@advalvas.be> created the Windows Help
   version of our "Programming Ruby" book.

   Martin Ankerl <martin.ankerl@gmail.com> created fxri, a GUI
   interface to the ri documentation database.

   Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> created fxirb, a GUI
   version of Ruby's console based irb (interactive ruby). fxirb
   is incorporated into Martin Ankerl's fxri.

   Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> ported and provides the
   FXRuby GUI extension.

5

"Curt Hibbs" <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:31d15f490601301532o5686dfe9j89d54773027cc80d@mail.gmail.com...
=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.

[ .. snip .. snip ... ] why won't OE indent the original message lines with
> ? I TOLD it to.

Possible problem with rdocs for the installer.

Windows XP Pro
I did a full uninstall of the previous one click installer before installing
the preview use ruby184-16p2.exe. After the install, ri, fxri, rdocs in
freeride were not working correctly. Everything I could see was doubled,
and most was giving messages about multiple matches. EG.

ri String#upcase!

More than one method matched your request. You can refine
your search by asking for information on one of:

     String#upcase!, String#upcase!

I traced this to the docs being in both the site and system folders
... ruby\share\ri\1.8\site
... ruby\share\ri\1.8\system

I removed the contents of the site directory, and everything seems to be
working again.

···

--
Phil
remove all of the (at)'s to send email

6

Yes, definitely feel free to send a note of appreciation to those who
selflessly donate their paid-for bandwidth to be a RubyForge mirror.

I know I'm not helping with this much larger One-Click Installer
download. There are a couple causes. First, I started including the
Ruby source code to make it easier for people to compile additional
Ruby extensions if/when they so desire. And second, this release
contains two versions of FXRuby, 1.4.4 (the latest release), and 1.2.6
(needed by fxri and FreeRIDE).

Curt

···

On 1/30/06, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:

Just wanted to inject a quick thanks to the folks who are providing
RubyForge file and gem mirrors; they're now serving about 22 GB of data
per day:

http://rubyforge.org/credits/

7

Curt Hibbs wrote:

Also (this should have been in the release notes), previous versions
of the One-Click Installer contained an (old) version of Tcl/Tk. Now
this installer only contains the Ruby bindings to whatever version of
Tcl/Tk you wish to install. ActiveTcl would be a good choice:

  Download & Install Tcl | ActiveState

Curt

I'm not an expert, so this might be a moot point, but having tk included
with the ruby installer is one of the major reasons I code in ruby/tk vs
one of the other toolkits. (maybe this should be my clue-in to start
coding my guis in fox :slight_smile:

at any rate I would like to see it left in if it's not eating up too
much space, (coming from someone who has no idea of the technical
difficulties involved with this request)

  Thanks again for the great job on the one-click installer,
           Gary Watson

···

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.

8

Thanks... this is a big help! I'll take a closer look ASAP.

Curt

···

On 2/1/06, Phil Duby <newshoundat@atphriendly.atnet> wrote:

"Curt Hibbs" <curt.hibbs@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:31d15f490601301532o5686dfe9j89d54773027cc80d@mail.gmail.com...
=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

By popular demand, preview2 goes back to including SciTE as its
bundled code editor, and includes the promised upgrade of FXRuby to
1.4.4. Everything else in the preview1 announcement is still correct.

[ .. snip .. snip ... ] why won't OE indent the original message lines with
> ? I TOLD it to.

Possible problem with rdocs for the installer.

Windows XP Pro
I did a full uninstall of the previous one click installer before installing
the preview use ruby184-16p2.exe. After the install, ri, fxri, rdocs in
freeride were not working correctly. Everything I could see was doubled,
and most was giving messages about multiple matches. EG.
>ri String#upcase!
More than one method matched your request. You can refine
your search by asking for information on one of:

    String#upcase!, String#upcase!

I traced this to the docs being in both the site and system folders
... ruby\share\ri\1.8\site
... ruby\share\ri\1.8\system

I removed the contents of the site directory, and everything seems to be
working again.

9

> Just wanted to inject a quick thanks to the folks who are providing
> RubyForge file and gem mirrors; they're now serving about 22 GB of
> data per day:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/credits/

Yes, definitely feel free to send a note of appreciation to
those who selflessly donate their paid-for bandwidth to be a
RubyForge mirror.

I know I'm not helping with this much larger One-Click
Installer download. There are a couple causes. First, I
started including the Ruby source code to make it easier for
people to compile additional Ruby extensions if/when they so
desire. And second, this release contains two versions of
FXRuby, 1.4.4 (the latest release), and 1.2.6 (needed by fxri
and FreeRIDE).

It's no problem! The One-Click Installer is the most popular download
on RubyForge, and we would have had to set up this mirror thing at some
point anyhow. All's well...

Yours,

Tom

10

Curt Hibbs wrote:
...

Ruby extensions if/when they so desire. And second, this release
contains two versions of FXRuby, 1.4.4 (the latest release), and 1.2.6
(needed by fxri and FreeRIDE).

This is a question more about gems, I think. I noticed that, after
installing the one-click, and doing a gem cleanup, 1.2.6 was deleted.
I'm not on windows now, so I can't tell whether this breaks FreeRIDE,
but it sounds like it would.

Is there some way to "lock" older gems that are needed by applications?
Or would FreeRIDE have to be a gem itself and have an explicit dependency?

···

--
      vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

11

Curt Hibbs wrote:
...
> Ruby extensions if/when they so desire. And second, this release
> contains two versions of FXRuby, 1.4.4 (the latest release), and 1.2.6
> (needed by fxri and FreeRIDE).

This is a question more about gems, I think. I noticed that, after
installing the one-click, and doing a gem cleanup, 1.2.6 was deleted.
I'm not on windows now, so I can't tell whether this breaks FreeRIDE,
but it sounds like it would.

Yes, this would break both FreeRIDE and fxri.

Is there some way to "lock" older gems that are needed by applications?
Or would FreeRIDE have to be a gem itself and have an explicit dependency?

I'm not a RubyGemes expert, perhaps one of the RubyGems developers is
reading and can answer?

Curt

···

On 1/31/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:

12

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

Is there some way to "lock" older gems that are needed by applications?
Or would FreeRIDE have to be a gem itself and have an explicit
dependency?

I assume you mean lock down so that the gem cleanup command won't remove
particular versions.

There is no direct way to do this in RubyGems. However, you could
create a gem of your own that installed no software but did depened on
the versions of the software you needed. It is pretty trivial to create
gems, so this is not hard. As long as your "lock down" gem is
installed, the cleanup command won't remove the referenced gem versions.
(caveat: technique untried, but can't think of a reason it wouldn't
work).

···

--
-- Jim Weirich

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.

13

This version of ruby doesn't seem to work on Linux+Wine. The installer worked flawlessly. Trying to run anything ends up with:

% wine 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\ruby' 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\irb.bat'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)

It fails on the command 'require "rubygems"'.

By contrast, ruby 1.8.2 One Click installer was working great.

Anything I can do to help ensure the upcoming 1.8.4 final release will work on Linux+Wine too (kind of important to me).

Guillaume.

14

Jim Weirich ha scritto:

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

Is there some way to "lock" older gems that are needed by applications?
Or would FreeRIDE have to be a gem itself and have an explicit dependency?

I assume you mean lock down so that the gem cleanup command won't remove particular versions.

There is no direct way to do this in RubyGems. However, you could create a gem of your own that installed no software but did depened on the versions of the software you needed. It is pretty trivial to create gems, so this is not hard. As long as your "lock down" gem is installed, the cleanup command won't remove the referenced gem versions. (caveat: technique untried, but can't think of a reason it wouldn't work).

would it be reasonable to add a switch (I'm thinking of "gem lock foo-x.y.z") to gem to do this automagically?
It could update a rubygems-locked gem each time "lock" is called, providing users a nice interface to a useful feature.

15

Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually
setting RUBYOPY=rubygems

I had no idea that anyone was using this on Linux with Wine.

Curt

···

On 1/31/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:

This version of ruby doesn't seem to work on Linux+Wine. The installer
worked flawlessly. Trying to run anything ends up with:

% wine 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\ruby' 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\irb.bat'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)

It fails on the command 'require "rubygems"'.

By contrast, ruby 1.8.2 One Click installer was working great.

Anything I can do to help ensure the upcoming 1.8.4 final release will
work on Linux+Wine too (kind of important to me).

Guillaume.

16

i used it a while back to decode some xls files this way - actually worked. i
think i ended up using cross over office - nonetheless i ended up make win32
calls on my linux box and used the one click installer for ruby. pretty neat.

cheers.

-a

···

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:

Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually
setting RUBYOPY=rubygems

I had no idea that anyone was using this on Linux with Wine.

--
happiness is not something ready-made. it comes from your own actions.
- h.h. the 14th dali lama

17

Curt Hibbs wrote:

Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually
setting RUBYOPY=rubygems

It is set. Apparently, any require fails.

% wine wcmd
WCMD Version 0.17

H:\>set RUBYOPT
RUBYOPT=rubygems
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>set RUBYOPT=
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
toto
H:\>ruby -rubygems -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
H:\>path
PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin

I had no idea that anyone was using this on Linux with Wine.

See my previous post ruby-talk:176939.

Guillaume

···

Curt

On 1/31/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:

This version of ruby doesn't seem to work on Linux+Wine. The installer
worked flawlessly. Trying to run anything ends up with:

% wine 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\ruby' 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\irb.bat'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)

It fails on the command 'require "rubygems"'.

By contrast, ruby 1.8.2 One Click installer was working great.

Anything I can do to help ensure the upcoming 1.8.4 final release will
work on Linux+Wine too (kind of important to me).

Guillaume.

18

Weirdo.

:slight_smile:

···

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

i used it a while back to decode some xls files this way - actually worked. i
think i ended up using cross over office - nonetheless i ended up make win32
calls on my linux box and used the one click installer for ruby. pretty neat.

--
James Britt

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Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually
> setting RUBYOPY=rubygems

It is set. Apparently, any require fails.

I'm afraid I haven't a clue.

You might want to try ruby-mswin32:

  http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html

The One-Click installer is built on top of this. At least then we'd
know if the problem lies in the base system, and in something that I
added on. ruby-mswin32 does not include RubyGems, so you'll have to
install that manually.

Curt

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On 1/31/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:

% wine wcmd
WCMD Version 0.17

H:\>set RUBYOPT
RUBYOPT=rubygems
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>set RUBYOPT=
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
toto
H:\>ruby -rubygems -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
H:\>path
PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin

> I had no idea that anyone was using this on Linux with Wine.

See my previous post ruby-talk:176939.

Guillaume

> Curt
>
> On 1/31/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:
>> This version of ruby doesn't seem to work on Linux+Wine. The installer
>> worked flawlessly. Trying to run anything ends up with:
>>
>> % wine 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\ruby' 'C:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin\irb.bat'
>> C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
>> device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
>>
>> It fails on the command 'require "rubygems"'.
>>
>> By contrast, ruby 1.8.2 One Click installer was working great.
>>
>> Anything I can do to help ensure the upcoming 1.8.4 final release will
>> work on Linux+Wine too (kind of important to me).
>>
>> Guillaume.
>>
>>
>>
>

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It looks like it's trying to write files in retrieving a gem, but
failing with "No space left on device". Can you successfully write
other files under Wine, say, using Notepad.exe?

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On 2/1/06, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> wrote:

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually
> setting RUBYOPY=rubygems

It is set. Apparently, any require fails.

% wine wcmd
WCMD Version 0.17

H:\>set RUBYOPT
RUBYOPT=rubygems
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>set RUBYOPT=
H:\>ruby -e 'puts "toto"'
toto
H:\>ruby -rubygems -e 'puts "toto"'
C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4: No space left on
device - C:/ruby-1.8.4-one/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb (Errno::ENOSPC)
H:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
H:\>path
PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\ruby-1.8.4-one\bin