Ruby update

Rails
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Hello, I’m using instantrails 2 to develop RubyOnRails projects on
windows and need to update my ruby version to 1.8.7 (I’m still using
1.8.6). I downloaded ruby 1.8.7 here
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip
and unzipped files in the ruby folder of instantrails but when I check
“ruby -v” I still got 1.8.6 (I tried a gem update and same thing, some
gems won’t update because they detect ruby 1.8.6 and not 1.8.7).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong??

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:33 PM, CiriusMex [email protected] wrote:

Hello, I’m using instantrails 2 to develop RubyOnRails projects on
windows and need to update my ruby version to 1.8.7 (I’m still using
1.8.6). I downloaded ruby 1.8.7 here
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip
and unzipped files in the ruby folder of instantrails but when I check
“ruby -v” I still got 1.8.6 (I tried a gem update and same thing, some
gems won’t update because they detect ruby 1.8.6 and not 1.8.7).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong??

You should check railsinstaller … or even better try to change to a
linux
distribution :slight_smile:

Javier

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On Jan 24, 11:38am, Walter Lee D. [email protected] wrote:

The files you download are the source code, you’ll have to compile it to have it
available as a binary on your machine. Not sure how that squares with
InstantRails, though. You might want to look at RailsInstaller from Engine Y.,
which I gather is the latest thing for Windows + Rails. Someone else with
experience using Posix software on Windows can probably point out my errors and
what you should do.

Walter

Hello Javier and Walter,

First thanks for your reply. I already had a look at RailsInstaller
but I would prefer not to change my development environment, just
update ruby to 1.8.7…I’m gonna keep looking for a solution about
that.

Olivier.

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You can take a look at Pik gem, it works very similar to RVM with the
difference that this works on windows =D

Here’s the URL: pik | RubyGems.org | your community gem host

2012/1/24 CiriusMex [email protected]

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On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:33 PM, CiriusMex wrote:

Hello, I’m using instantrails 2 to develop RubyOnRails projects on
windows and need to update my ruby version to 1.8.7 (I’m still using
1.8.6). I downloaded ruby 1.8.7 here
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip
and unzipped files in the ruby folder of instantrails but when I check
“ruby -v” I still got 1.8.6 (I tried a gem update and same thing, some
gems won’t update because they detect ruby 1.8.6 and not 1.8.7).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong??

The files you download are the source code, you’ll have to compile it to
have it available as a binary on your machine. Not sure how that squares
with InstantRails, though. You might want to look at RailsInstaller from
Engine Y., which I gather is the latest thing for Windows + Rails.
Someone else with experience using Posix software on Windows can
probably point out my errors and what you should do.

Walter

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On 01/24/2012 10:05 PM, Norm S. wrote:

I have done exactly what you describe and it did work. Did the files
from the zip end up in the ruby/bin and ruby/lib folders? As this is
Windows you probably should reboot if you havn’t.

Reviewing I think I find I did something different. I downloaded
binaries from
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.7-p330-i386-mswin32.zip
and they worked fine. As someone said what you have downloaded is the
source and you really do not need that.

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On 01/24/2012 10:33 AM, CiriusMex wrote:

Hello, I’m using instantrails 2 to develop RubyOnRails projects on
windows and need to update my ruby version to 1.8.7 (I’m still using
1.8.6). I downloaded ruby 1.8.7 here
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.zip
and unzipped files in the ruby folder of instantrails but when I check
“ruby -v” I still got 1.8.6 (I tried a gem update and same thing, some
gems won’t update because they detect ruby 1.8.6 and not 1.8.7).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong??
I have done exactly what you describe and it did work. Did the files
from the zip end up in the ruby/bin and ruby/lib folders? As this is
Windows you probably should reboot if you havn’t.

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On Jan 24, 11:32pm, Norm S. [email protected] wrote:

I have done exactly what you describe and it did work. Did the files
from the zip end up in the ruby/bin and ruby/lib folders? As this is
Windows you probably should reboot if you havn’t.

Reviewing I think I find I did something different. I downloaded
binaries
fromhttp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.7-p330-i3…
and they worked fine. As someone said what you have downloaded is the
source and you really do not need that.

Thank you all for the help, I used the binaries files you said
(actually Walter was right from the beginning…) and it worked great!