# One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows: 185-22 RC1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 24, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255 "2007-01-24T17:54:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/1 "2007-01-24T17:54:48Z")
185-22 Release Candidate 1 [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) This release updates Ruby to 1.8.5 patch level 12 (lots of bugs fixed), and most of the included extensions to their latest versions (see the change log). You can download the new release here: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) Also, FreeRIDE is no longer included. You can install FreeRIDE separately from: [http://freeride.rubyforge.org/](http://freeride.rubyforge.org/) Please report bugs here (select 185-22 from the “Group” dropdown): [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group\_id=167&func=browse](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=715&group_id=167&func=browse) * * * _Changes:_ 2007-01 Release 22 - Upgraded Ruby to ruby 1.8.5p12 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) - Removed FreeRIDE (you can install separately from htp://freeride.rubyforge.org/) - Removed FXRuby 1.2.6 - Upgraded FXRuby to 1.6.5 - Upgraded fxri to 0.3.6 - Upgraded Expat XML Parser to 2.0.0 - Replaced HTMLParser with Hpricot 0.4 - Upgraded Ruby/DBI to 0.1.1 - Upgraded Ruby ODBC to 0.9994 - Upgraded Win32 Utils to their latest versions as of 1-7-2007 (see [http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/)) - Upgraded OpenSSL to 0.9.8d 2006-08 Release 21 - stable release - Upgraded Ruby to ruby-1.8.5 - Upgraded to win32-clipboard 0.4.1 - Upgraded to win32-eventlog 0.4.2 - Upgraded to win32-process 0.5.1 2006-07 Release 20 - stable release - Updated the “src” directory to contain the correct version of Ruby. - Stopped dialogs from popping up when installed in silent mode (using the /S option). - Upgraded FXRuby to 1.6.1 2006-07 Release 19 - final release for 1.8.4 - Correct version of FreeRIDE is now included (0.9.6) - SciTE now invokes the Ruby Help file when editing a ruby program. 2006-07 Release 18 - Included all Win32-Util packages that are available as RubyGems. - Updated RubyGems to 0.9.0 - All sample programs now reside under the “samples” directory. - Updated FreeRIDE to 0.9.6 - Upgrade FXRuby to 1.6.0 - Added option for European keyboard to properly map certain input characters in IRB. - Uninstaller now informs you that the entire installation dir will be deleted and gives you the option to abort. - Upgraded Ruby to ruby-1.8.4-20060414 - Log4r is now installed via RubyGems 2006-05 Release 17 - Start menu items are now removed on uninstall - Upgrade VRuby to vruby060223 - Upgrade SWin to vrswin060205 - Upgrade FXRuby to 1.4.6 - Upgraded zlib to 1.2.3. - RUBYOPT is now properly handled on install and uninstall when adding the -rubygems option. 2006-03 - SciTe now defaults, for ruby file, to two-space tabs and indent, and shows line numbers. - Standalone “ri” and “rdoc” ruby files are now included (in addition to ri.bat and rdoc.bat) because these are needed for the RDT Eclipse plugin. - Fixed file association and icons for \*.rb & \*.rbw - XML Parser is now included again. 2006-02 - DBI is now included again, but only with the ODBC driver. - Fix a problem where fxri and ri did not work properly (the ri database was being duplicated). - Updated release notes to mention that the install now only contains bindings to Tcl/Tk and that to use Tcl/Tk you must install it (recommending ActiveTcl). - \bin now added to beginning of the system path instead of the end. 2006-01 - Switched back to SciTE from Notepad++ - Upgraded FXRuby to 1.4.4. - Completely rewrote build system to build on top of the ruby-mswin32 distribution, and use rake to run the build process. 2005-12 - RubyMock removed, it is no longer publicly available. - Packages included as preinstalled RubyGems can no longer be optional in the installer. This now includes fxri and FXRuby, and RubyGems itself. - Added FXRuby 1.4.3 (in addition to 1.2.6, which is required by FreeRIDE). - FXRuby 1.2.6 now instaled via RubyGems - Fxri now installed via RubyGems. - Upgraded build system to be able to directly install extensions using RubyGem. 2005-11 - Upgraded RubyGems to 0.8.11 2005-05-12 - Went back to installing FXRuby through its installer instead of its RubyGem. 2005-05-01 Curt - Included ruby/misc/ruby-electric.el from Ruby 1.9 - Included new build of readline 4.3.2 (I hope this fixes readline problems) - included testunit patch needed by Rails - Updated FreeRIDE to 0.9.4 - Included fxri 0.3.2 - Updated FXRuby 1.2.6 - Updated RubyGems to 0.8.10 - Created start menu shortcuts for RubyGems gem\_server and viewing the RDoc for installed gems. - Included user-submitted irb patch 2004-12-25 Curt - Built from Ruby 1.8.2 final - OpenSSL 0.9.7e - Updated RubyGems to 0.8.3 - Updated FreeRIDE to 0.9.2 - Updated GnuWin32ZLib to 1.2.1 2004-12-05 Curt: - Updated FXRuby to 1.2.2 2004-11-28 Curt: - Updated FreeRIDE to 0.9.0 - RUBYOPT environment var is prepended and not replaced. 2004-11-08 Curt: - Built from Ruby 1.8.2 preview3 2004-08-31 17:47 CURT - Fixed build script to download and build FreeRIDE from the tarball (I hacked in the FreeRIDE build earlier). - Added a registry entry that allows you to right click in windows explorer and select “New\>Ruby P.” to create and empty ruby file. 2004-08-17 13:51 CURT - Compiled with vc++ 7.1 (required for FreeRIDE debugger) - Added FreeRIDE 0.7.0 (prerelease) - Changed TCL/TK support by compileing Ruby with the --enable-tcltk\_stubs option, and eliminated the need to set any TCL environment variables. - Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.994 2004-07-30 13:51 CURT - Built from Ruby 1.8.2 preview2 2004-07-29 08:29 CURT - Built from Ruby 1.8.2 preview1 - Added Start Menu shortcuts to documentation on [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org). - Fixed IRB so that tab completion would work by picking up the Windows port of readline.dll and readline.so (v4.3.2) from ActiveScriptRuby 1.8.1.2 ([http://arton.hp.infoseek.co.jp/](http://arton.hp.infoseek.co.jp/)). Copies of these files are now in the directory: …\installer\local\irb-readline-4.3.2 However, tab completion only works for english keyboards. - Eliminated the installer dialog message that warned you might need to reboot your system. This was only true on older versions of Windows 98, and prevented an unattended install. For the record, an unattended install can be performed using the following command line arguments to the installer: /S /D= 2004-07-21 12:48 curt - Changed the layout of the Windows registry entries. - Minor fixes in preparation for 182-14 - Built from Ruby 1.8.2 stable snapshot date 2004-06-29 - Fixed Bug #643 - fixed a typo in a registry entry. - Upgraded Expat to version 1.95.7 - Upgraded Ruby-odbc to version 0.993 - Upgraded DBI to 0.23 - Upgraded FXRuby to version 1.0.29 2004-05-04 22:17 curt - Log4R, as distributed in Ruby 1.8.1 had a known error that prevented it from being used in even simple cases (reported as bug #552). A fix had been posted to ruby-talk: 2004-04-30 23:55 curt - Created a Patch-181 directory that contains the ri database and win32ole patches for this release. These patch files must be manually copied to the “stable” directory _after_ the build, and _before_ running NSIS. 2004-04-30 23:50 curt - Pulled the win32ole out of 181-10 as a tempoary workaround to win32ole being broken in the official 1.8.1 release. 2004-04-25 23:35 curt - Hand generated the ri database from a post 1.8.1 Ruby snapshot (because ri in the Ruby 1.8.1 release tarball was broken). - Fixed the bad paths in the \*.bat files in ruby\bin. 2004-04-01 22:52 curt - I had to back out my 2004-03-30 change where I removed the installer directory. It containsn ruby\_env.exe which must be executed to set enviroment vars (some day I want to get rid of this program because we should be able to do this from the NSIS script). 2004-03-31 23:00 curt - Upgraded SciTE to the latest version (1.59), which includes support for YAML highlighting and Tools menu commands for Ruby syntax checking, code profiling, and irb. 2004-03-30 23:00 curt - The Ruby Installer included and installed a copy of the ruby installer NSIS script and some (but not all) of the resources needed to build the installer. I removed this because it didn’t server any purpose (it was incomplete and people can get the ruby installer off of rubyforge if they ant it). - Fix the problem where “irb.bat”, “erb.bat” and “rdoc.bat” had the wrong path in them. 2004-03-29 22:34 curt - I created the file …\installer\ChangeLog.txt (this file) to log all changes made to the Ruby Installer. Many of these changes are relevant only to those of us who are working on the installer. - You can now specify a proxy server to be used for the downloads by setting the environment variable “http\_proxy”, like this: set http\_proxy=[http://myproxy:8080/](http://myproxy:8080/) - You skip building the RI Database by setting this environment variable: set build\_ri=false Buiding the RI Database is very time consuming, and temporarily disabling this can be used to speed up the edit-build-debug cycle. - I renamed the README file to ReadMe.txt for make it easier to edit this file on windows (this _is_ a windows installer, you know! 🙂 2004-03-28 18:50 curt - The build process is now completely free of cygwin ans the NSIS install script has been updated to work properly with NSIS 2.0 final. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/2 "2007-01-24T18:15:52Z")
Curt H. schrieb: > 185-22 Release Candidate 1 [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) > (…) Curt, thank you very much! Given that there are some gems installed in the current version, how do you recommend to upgrade to the new version of the One-Click Installer? Regards, Pit ---
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/3 "2007-01-24T19:44:17Z")
On 1/24/07, Pit C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Curt H. schrieb: > > > 185-22 Release Candidate 1 [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) > > (…) > > Curt, thank you very much! Given that there are some gems installed in > the current version, how do you recommend to upgrade to the new version > of the One-Click Installer? The only foolproof way to move over to the new version is to reinstall any of your extensions. You cannot reliably install on top of an existing installation. This is pretty easy if all of your extensions are RubyGems, and less so if they are not. If this is a big pain for you, then I’d wait for the final release. Curt ---
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/4 "2007-01-24T22:27:48Z")
Curt H. schrieb: > If this is a big pain for you, then I’d wait for the final release. > Thanks for the info. It’s no problem for me personally. Regards, Pit ---
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/5 "2007-01-24T21:28:38Z")
On Jan 24, 10:54 am, “Curt H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > 185-22 Release Candidate 1 [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) > > This release updates Ruby to 1.8.5 patch level 12 (lots of bugs fixed), and > most of the included extensions to their latest versions (see the change > log). You can download the new release here:[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167) > > Also, FreeRIDE is no longer included. You can install FreeRIDE separately > from:[http://freeride.rubyforge.org/](http://freeride.rubyforge.org/) Awesome. What version of RubyGems do you intend to include? I’ve had some problems with 0.9.1 but haven’t had time to verify if it’s just on my machine or not ("gem unpack " fails with an “absolute path” error, also rendering rails:freeze to fail for people using Rails), but you might want to just test 0.9.1 on your Windows box first if you’re intending to ship it with the installer, just in case the problem isn’t specific to my environment. Thanks again, Jeff > **[Hey Daddio!](http://softiesonrails.com)** > > Home of Hey Daddio Software ---
**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:** [January 25, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/6 "2007-01-25T02:08:19Z")
On Jan 24, 3:52 pm, Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’ve been working with Curt to try to get a major issue with 0.9.1 on > windows sorted out. I’ve fixed half of it, and if we can fix the > other half in a timely manner it should ship with 0.9.1. Sounds good, Eric. If you need any help testing something on Windows, feel free to let me know (though I’m sure between you and Curt you’ve got it covered). Thanks Jeff ---
**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:** [January 24, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows-185-22-rc1/83255/7 "2007-01-24T22:54:51Z")
On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:26, Jeff wrote: > What version of RubyGems do you intend to include? I’ve been working with Curt to try to get a major issue with 0.9.1 on windows sorted out. I’ve fixed half of it, and if we can fix the other half in a timely manner it should ship with 0.9.1. > I’ve had some problems with 0.9.1 but haven’t had time to verify if > it’s just on my > machine or not ("gem unpack " fails with an “absolute path” error, Known issue, see the tracker. > also rendering rails:freeze to fail for people using Rails Rails is hacking its way through the command line interface instead of going direct to the source, something like: Installer.new(gem).unpack(destination) – Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net) I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!