# Is anyone doing serious dev using the one-click Ruby? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119 "2006-04-18T17:57:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/1 "2006-04-18T17:57:28Z")
I’m getting started with Rails on Windows and really like the convenience of the one-click Ruby installer but the stable releases are too few and far between – only about once a year it seems – which means you get stuck with an old version of Ruby. Is there an easy way to patch it while waiting between stable releases? Or is the one-click version of Ruby just a convenient tool for newbies on Windows and not recommended for serious Ruby development? (A few things I’ve found that don’t work have also given me this impression.) If not the one-click installer, what? One of the other binaries for Windows? Or is the problem endemic to all win32 binaries, and the best course is to work on linux? TIA. ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/2 "2006-04-18T18:19:19Z")
On 4/18/06, David R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > course is to work on linux? > I develop exclusively (at least for right now) on Win32 with the > one-click installer. PDF::Writer, Diff::LCS, Archive::Tar::Minitar, Ruwiki, Text::Format, Text::Hyphen, etc. were all written on Win32 with the one-click installer. I haven’t yet updated to 1.8.4, but it works and works well. -austin ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/3 "2006-04-18T21:15:28Z")
On 4/18/06, David R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > course is to work on linux? > TIA. A new version of the one-click installer is released whenever there is a new release of Ruby (there was an exception for Ruby 1.8.3 because of bugs that it contained). If what you want is the latest updates from Ruby’s CVS repository, then you’d have to build it yourself. Curt ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/4 "2006-04-19T01:41:05Z")
Thanks, Austin and Zach for setting me straight, and especially Curt for a great Ruby installer and the Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorial that has been such a hit! I have to apologize. Looking back at the files I had to tweak I find that they were gems, not part of the one-click installer. I’m very much looking forward to the stable release of one-click Ruby 1.8.4. ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/5 "2006-04-19T01:04:10Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Austin Z. wrote: > > If not the one-click installer, what? One of the other binaries for > > well. When I work remotely on my winlaptop i use the oneclick installer supplied version of Ruby. It is also installed on all of our windows workstations for folks who are just endusers. Zach -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iD4DBQFERXE9Myx0fW1d8G0RAsjcAJ9eEVxcbxxjdHfbGv8YURoUZqpMogCY6toC 2Mhf4Ya8CoHN2pNx/5xu7w== =hBcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/6 "2006-04-19T07:33:17Z")
Curt H. wrote: > the Ruby runtime installed by the most recent release > is entirely stable. The only reason its not a final > release is that this installer itself has some minor > problems OK, thanks, Curt. I’ll give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/7 "2006-04-19T05:14:56Z")
I must not be doing a very good job of getting the message out… the Ruby runtime installed by the most recent release is entirely stable. The only reason its not a final release is that this installer itself has some minor problems (for example, uninstall doesn’t delete the start menu entries). Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to over commit my time by about 200% so I haven’t had time to address even these fairly trivial problems. I’ve got one other person helping me, but he also has very little time. Anyway, for the vast majority of people there is no reason to shy away from the latest release of the one-click installer. Curt ---
**Author:** ![davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@davidjrice](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/davidjrice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-anyone-doing-serious-dev-using-the-one-click-ruby/58119/8 "2006-04-19T15:35:58Z")
On 4/18/06, David R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m getting started with Rails on Windows and really like the > convenience of the one-click Ruby installer but the stable releases are > too few and far between – only about once a year it seems – which > means you get stuck with an old version of Ruby. Every version of Ruby Reports is tested against the One Click installer. It’s pretty much the defacto standard ruby on windows.