# One-Click Installer for Ruby 1.8.7? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589 "2008-06-16T15:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/1 "2008-06-16T15:57:52Z")
Hi, When do you expect to release a one-click installer for ruby 1.8.7 for the Windows platform? Currently (at [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)) there is still just a one-click installer for the old version 1.8.6. You’ve supplied a binary version of 1.8.7 for Windows, however it appears to suffer from the same missing dlls (readline.dll, zlib.dll, …) errors I previously described while testing ruby 1.9.0 on Windows ([Ruby 1.9 migration problem on Windows - Ruby - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/154713)). I’m eager to migrate to the new version, however I don’t want to commit to new language features in my codes if installation on Windows is a hazzle as it obviously will be without the one-click installer. I might be able to set it up properly on my development machine, however installation for users and general deployment of the interpreter itself _must_ be a pain-free process (ie. one-click installation). I hope you will update the one-click installer soon. Ruby is a great language and Windows should not be left behind as a second class platform for ruby. Kind regards, Andreas ---
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/2 "2008-06-17T01:15:37Z")
On Jun 16, 3:56 pm, Andreas W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > We appreciate your interest in the language, however, 1.8.7 proven to be more complex for us since we are migrating One-Click installer from VC6 to MinGW compiler, which will provide another series of advantages for our point of view. The choose to stick to 1.8.6 was a decision made based on several back- port problems 1.8.7 showed and I couldn’t managed get enough free time to confirm if those got fixed in the final release of it. Right now you can: Install 1.8.6-26 of One-Click and unpack the 1.8.7 binary on top, which will work most of the cases. The other is follow up the progress of development with MinGW in the rubyinstaller-devel mailing list: [http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=167) We can’t promise a release date since the change of compiler exposes other caveats of the solution and platform. You can find more datails in my blog posts: [http://blog.mmediasys.com/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/) Regards, ---
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/3 "2008-06-24T17:50:23Z")
Any progress on this? We have corporate developers and Ruby is just getting its foothold in our Enterprise but with the security vulnerabilities and the lack of an updated installer management is concerned and it could de-rail the effort. ---
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/4 "2008-06-22T05:03:02Z")
On Jun 17, 3:19 pm, Andreu [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > That’s bad news for me. I understand it will be easy for developpers, > but the use of Mingw (a great product otherwise) means that Ruby > will be slower and it’s use will decline among the windows community. > > Andrew. Slower? Maybe you’re confusing MinGW with Cygwin. MinGW is not a \*nix emulation for Windows, is GCC native version. Here you have some numbers of latest performance of One-Click Installer MinGW based: [http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/04/24/contributions-speedup-and-less-quirks-for-us/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/04/24/contributions-speedup-and-less-quirks-for-us/) Is 30% faster than VC6 build of ruby, also, more easy to get some extensions working. You can also see my post about speed comparison with VC9: [http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-January/000230.html](http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-January/000230.html) Regards, ---
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/5 "2008-06-25T00:06:38Z")
On Jun 24, 5:45 pm, ChessMess [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Any progress on this? We have corporate developers and Ruby is just > getting its foothold in our Enterprise but with the security > vulnerabilities and the lack of an updated installer management is > concerned and it could de-rail the effort. Hmn, we are still removing the dust that the security vulnerabilities generated. As I commented on mongrel-users: [http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2008-June/005446.html](http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2008-June/005446.html) 1. 1.8.7 broke lot of things, including wxRuby. 2. wxRuby is a bundled extension and gem of One-Click Installer (which is also FXRuby). 3. 1.8.6-p230 self tests didn’t complete on Windows. 4. as commented by other users, backporting changes across versions is a hard work (try looking at the commits logs and you will see what I’m talking about). 5. Even p230 is broken for 1.8.6 itself, not only on Windows, but across every platform. So, with all those points, 1.8.7 is not a valid option to provide an Updated installer, since the work and time involved in test every single package that is bundled with One-Click Installer distract us from our task to complete MinGW release. 1.8.6 is plain broken, until someone make it work (and the selfe tests pass) we will stick to p114 and backport some patches, as we did for the MinGW version we are working on. The new version will be Windows Installer Based (MSI) which will play more nice in corporate environments. Hope this explains our point of view so far. Feel free to contribute part of your time and give us a hand to get the product out of the door faster. we are working pretty hard on this and breaking our \*sses to deliver a good and top quality product. BTW, we didn’t started a pledgie or a contribution collect and even so, we donate our time to the community. If you have corporate customers, make them pay for quality service, and you will get it, trust me. Regards, ---
**Author:** ![awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@awarberg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/awarberg)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-installer-for-ruby-1-8-7/140589/6 "2008-06-24T21:19:07Z")
ChessMess wrote: > Any progress on this? We have corporate developers and Ruby is just > getting its foothold in our Enterprise but with the security > vulnerabilities and the lack of an updated installer management is > concerned and it could de-rail the effort. You could roll your own with mingw if you want the latest build. Oh, except apparently patch 230 is broken, so you might want to wait a little while. I suppose you could roll your own with VC6, too, but that might be hard, since support for it is being deprecated in favor of mingw. The OCI guys are working on it, but also hesitate to release until the tests all pass. -R