# Instant Rails 1.3

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**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-1-3/57551 "2006-04-11T22:47:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-1-3/57551/1 "2006-04-11T22:47:56Z")

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Instant Rails 1.3 upgrades Ruby on Rails to its newly released version  
1.1.2 and adds the native C MySQL/Ruby driver. There were no other  
changes over Instant Rails 1.1

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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 1.1.2 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 1.1.2) and Typo (which is still using its own copy of Rails  
1.0).

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)

Instant Rails includes a number of open source software packages.  
Below is a list of all included software in Instant Rails 1.3

Primary Instant Rails Components

```
* [Instant Rails Manager] 1.3

* [Ruby 1.8.4] (from the [One-Click Ruby Installer] 1.8.4-16)

* [Ruby on Rails] 1.1.2

* [Apache] 1.3.33

* [MySQL] 4.1.9

* [MySQL/Ruby] 2.7

* [SCGI] 1.7+

* [SCGI Rails Runner] 0.4.3

* [phpMyAdmin] 2.6.1

```

Ancillary Instant Rails Components

These components are not the primary focus of Instant Rails, but are  
included because the primary components above depend upon them…

```
* [PHP] 4.3.10

* [Rake] 0.7.1

* [Typo] 2.6.0

* [cmdparse] 2.0.0

* [HighLine] 1.0.1

* [Mongrel] 0.3.12

```

[Mongrel] is an experimental inclusion so that we (and you) can play  
around with it. We are considering replacing SCGI with Mongrel in the  
future.