# \[ANN\] Instant Rails 1.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-instant-rails-1-1/56585>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 1, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-instant-rails-1-1/56585 "2006-04-01T11:52:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/curthibbs)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-instant-rails-1-1/56585/1 "2006-04-01T11:52:49Z")

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Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby,  
Rails,  
Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you  
simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not  
modify your system environment. This release of Instant Rails is for  
Windows, but there are plans for ports to Linux, BSD, and OSX.

This release upgrades Rails to 1.1 and the included Ruby runtime to  
the One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.4-16 rc1.

Two sample Rails applications come preinstalled: cookbook (which runs  
with Rails 1.1) and Typo (which is still using its own copy of Rails  
1.0). We will make another release of Instant Rails when Typo has been  
made to work with Rails 1.1.

For testing purposes (both for us and for you) this also includes the  
Ruby based Mongrel web server. This is currently available from the  
command line only. See the Mongrel site for more details:

[http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/)

The Instant Rails home page has links for downloading and getting  
started  
with Instant Rails:

[http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/)

If you already have Instant Rails installed, then be sure to read the  
upgrade instructions:

[http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?How\_To\_Upgrade](http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?How_To_Upgrade)

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**Author:** ![curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/curthibbs)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-instant-rails-1-1/56585/2 "2006-04-01T12:14:12Z")

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Hi,  
The download link does not seem to be working.

Regards,  
Jiaqi

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**Author:** ![curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curthibbs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/curthibbs)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-instant-rails-1-1/56585/3 "2006-04-01T14:34:46Z")

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WoW! InstantRail with Mongrel. Life doesn’t get any better than this!  
-L

On 4/1/06, Jiaqi L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby,  
> > with Rails 1.1) and Typo (which is still using its own copy of Rails  
> > with Instant Rails:  
> > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
> 
> * * *
> 
> Rails mailing list  
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

–  
Best Regards,  
-Larry  
“Work, work, work…there is no satisfactory alternative.”  
— E.Taft Benson