# Ruby's Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 9, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubys-windows-one-click-installer-is-16-months-old/167550 "2009-05-09T08:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jianlin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubys-windows-one-click-installer-is-16-months-old/167550/1 "2009-05-09T08:52:32Z")
Ruby’s Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old… seems like, which is 1.8.6 dated back to about 2007 December… Does anyone know why no one made a 1-Click installer for Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9? Is it that Ruby is used mostly by people using the Mac or Linux? ---
**Author:** ![jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jianlin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubys-windows-one-click-installer-is-16-months-old/167550/2 "2009-05-09T10:19:33Z")
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Jian L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ruby’s Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old… seems like, which > is 1.8.6 dated back to about 2007 December… > That calls for a celebration! – Si tu veux construire un bateau … Ne rassemble pas des hommes pour aller chercher du bois, préparer des outils, répartir les tâches, alléger le travail… mais enseigne aux gens la nostalgie de l’infini de la mer. If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ---
**Author:** ![jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jianlin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubys-windows-one-click-installer-is-16-months-old/167550/3 "2009-05-09T21:54:41Z")
> Does anyone know why no one made a 1-Click installer for Ruby 1.8.7 or > 1.9? Is it that Ruby is used mostly by people using the Mac or Linux? I believe the one click guy(s) didn’t want to have to deal with binary incompatibilities for 1.8.6 AND 1.8.7 , as well as didn’t want to force gem publishers to dual release binary extensions. Plus there were some other oddities with 1.8.7 that made them leery of it. Re: mostly used by Linux/mac…you got it. You can’t even _run_ the test suite of 1.9.0p0 on windows. That’s right–it hangs midtest. Charlie S. has been trying to help it come up to specs and…at least run 🙂 And the core developers are happy to accept (good) patches, but it’s definitely not their highest priority. That being said, I use 1.9 on windows and it works well and faster (for everything except EventMachine, which is broken, and some other gems that aren’t yet 1.9 compat, since almost everyone still uses 1.8.6, so windows specific gems are a tidge behind). If you’re interested in trying out later builds you could try a mingw distro[1]. Good luck! -=r [1] > **[ruby 1.9 one click installer](http://programming-gone-awry.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruby-19-one-click-installer.html)** > > Here's how to get a pretty easy working 1.9/1.8.6 mingw (from my post to ruby installers list) for the files at http://rubyinstaller.org/dow... ---
**Author:** ![jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jianlin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jianlin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubys-windows-one-click-installer-is-16-months-old/167550/4 "2009-05-09T22:21:04Z")
On May 9, 3:52 am, Jian L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ruby’s Windows One Click Installer is 16 months old… seems like, which > is 1.8.6 dated back to about 2007 December… Sure it is 16 months? Hmn… [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller) Version 1.8.6-27 Release Candidate 2 Date November 19, 2008 Doing math… November to May is 7 months, not to old. > Does anyone know why no one made a 1-Click installer for Ruby 1.8.7 or > 1.9? Is it that Ruby is used mostly by people using the Mac or Linux? All the answer to your questions here: [http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/05/rubyinstaller-state-of-one-click/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/05/rubyinstaller-state-of-one-click/)