Can a Windows Ruby user please confirm that the "Ruby 1.9.1-p129 Binary" link under "Ruby on Windows" on this page:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
actually downloads version 1.9.1? I'm investigating a bug report that claimed it downloaded version 1.8.7 and I don't have a Windows machine to install it on and confirm. The files do look like 1.9 to me though.
Thanks for the help.
James Edward Gray II
I just downloaded it in my parallels VM:
ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 ...
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, James Edward Gray II <james@graysoftinc.com>wrote:
Can a Windows Ruby user please confirm that the "Ruby 1.9.1-p129 Binary"
link under "Ruby on Windows" on this page:actually downloads version 1.9.1? I'm investigating a bug report that
claimed it downloaded version 1.8.7 and I don't have a Windows machine to
install it on and confirm. The files do look like 1.9 to me though.Thanks for the help.
James Edward Gray II
--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying."
-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Paul>c:\ruby-1.9.1-p129/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]
C:\Users\Paul>c:\ruby-1.9.1-p129/bin/irb
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.1"
irb(main):002:0> exit
On Oct 9, 4:01 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
Can a Windows Ruby user please confirm that the "Ruby 1.9.1-p129
Binary" link under "Ruby on Windows" on this page:actually downloads version 1.9.1? I'm investigating a bug report that
claimed it downloaded version 1.8.7 and I don't have a Windows machine
to install it on and confirm. The files do look like 1.9 to me though.Thanks for the help.
James Edward Gray II
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tl;dr: WFM
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me many days
On Oct 9, 2009, at 1:01 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
Can a Windows Ruby user please confirm that the "Ruby 1.9.1-p129 Binary" link under "Ruby on Windows" on this page:
actually downloads version 1.9.1? I'm investigating a bug report that claimed it downloaded version 1.8.7 and I don't have a Windows machine to install it on and confirm. The files do look like 1.9 to me though.
---
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com
This link:
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mswin32.zip
Downloads a 13.5MB file.
After extraction, on a command prompt:
C:\Users\Luis\Downloads>ruby_1_9\bin\ruby.exe -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]
Seems OK to me.
Perhaps they have 1.8.7 in the PATH, so is going to interfere. They
should check where that particular Ruby installed:
C:\Users\Luis\Downloads>ruby_1_9\bin\ruby.exe -v -rrbconfig -e "puts
RbConfig::CONFIG['bindir']"
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]
C:/Users/Luis/Downloads/ruby_1_9/bin
Regards,
On Oct 9, 10:01 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
Can a Windows Ruby user please confirm that the "Ruby 1.9.1-p129
Binary" link under "Ruby on Windows" on this page:actually downloads version 1.9.1? I'm investigating a bug report that
claimed it downloaded version 1.8.7 and I don't have a Windows machine
to install it on and confirm. The files do look like 1.9 to me though.Thanks for the help.
--
Luis Lavena
This was a wonderful way to end a very long day.
Thank you, Aaron.
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:
tl;dr: WFM
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me many days
---
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com
There are two steps to installing JRuby on Windows:
* Install JVM (if it hasn't been installed already)
* Unpack JRuby
Done.
With JRuby 1.4, there's even an installer that can do those two steps
in one shot, plus tweak your PATH. And JRuby 1.4 will have a native
jruby.exe as well.
It is vastly simpler to install JRuby than you might expect 
- Charlie
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me many
days
VirtualBox, that works.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Rob Biedenharn <Rob@agileconsultingllc.com> wrote:
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:
tl;dr: WFM
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me
many days---
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.comThis was a wonderful way to end a very long day.
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me many
daysThere are two steps to installing JRuby on Windows:
* Install JVM (if it hasn't been installed already)
* Unpack JRubyDone.
You don't have to set up your environment to point at the JVM? How hard
is it to find, download, and install the JVM? How about the same steps
for JRuby?
I only had to "unpack MRI" to install it, and somehow it took way more
than 1 step.
With JRuby 1.4, there's even an installer that can do those two steps
in one shot, plus tweak your PATH. And JRuby 1.4 will have a native
jruby.exe as well.
Tweaking your PATH isn't a step? I'm confused again...
I installed JRuby 1.4 that included the JRE. It was exactly 1 step less
than installing MRI on windows. But the limit of (n - 1) as n
approaches infinity is still infinite. Believe me, I felt like I was
approaching infinity.
I would reproduce my last email with JRuby, but this was a dig on
windows, not JRuby. Next time I'll more clearly indicate that I'm
trying to be funny. I'll also say "MacRuby" instead of "JRuby". 
It is vastly simpler to install JRuby than you might expect
Nothing on windows is simpler than I might expect. Except getting
viruses. That was super easy. Also getting little popups in the lower
right. I'm *super good* at getting those little popups. I don't even
have to click!
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Aaron Patterson > <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
--
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/
You don't have to set up your environment to point at the JVM? How hard
is it to find, download, and install the JVM? How about the same steps
for JRuby?
Of course we're talking past your point now (my fault, I didn't get
the joke), but you mention below the JRuby+JRE installer. So the above
steps would be reduced to two: download JRuby+JRE installer from
jruby.com; run it.
I only had to "unpack MRI" to install it, and somehow it took way more
than 1 step.
Yeah, I didn't get that it was a shot against Windows...I should have
looked at all the screenshots
With JRuby 1.4, there's even an installer that can do those two steps
in one shot, plus tweak your PATH. And JRuby 1.4 will have a native
jruby.exe as well.Tweaking your PATH isn't a step? I'm confused again...
It's an optional step we leave to up to users on *nixes because they
all have their own preferences (future installers may do PATH juggling
for *nix users too). On Windows, we just set it, since more people
there get confused if we don't (and it's a pretty gross process to
alter it.)
I installed JRuby 1.4 that included the JRE. It was exactly 1 step less
than installing MRI on windows. But the limit of (n - 1) as n
approaches infinity is still infinite. Believe me, I felt like I was
approaching infinity.
No doubt...we spend a *lot* of time trying to support Windows, which
is why we have an installer and a native jruby.exe for the 1.4
release. Windows is just so painful to cope with. I understand why
ruby core doesn't have enough resources to keep it working well and
build things like installers for it.
I would reproduce my last email with JRuby, but this was a dig on
windows, not JRuby. Next time I'll more clearly indicate that I'm
trying to be funny. I'll also say "MacRuby" instead of "JRuby".
Yeah, I get that, but the connotation I read (me being overly
sensitive to such things, to be sure) was that it would be even
*worse* trying to install JRuby for no clear reason. It's not, and so
I often feel the need to address unintentional FUD.
But I withdraw, at any rate, since we're pretty far off from your
actual point now
- Charlie
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
God help people installing JRuby on windows. I think it would take me many
days
I know I should leave well enough alone, but...
Assuming you already have Ruby and the JVM installed:
gem install pik
pik_install c:\bin
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6
pik install jruby
pik jruby
http://pastie.org/private/indo0pcxbimgwltxnpdgua
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Aaron Patterson >> <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com> wrote: