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InstantRails with Ruby One-Click Installer?
user name
 2007-01-05 14:27:44 
Hi.  I would like to hear how/what other users are
installing for
development and reference support.  I currently have both
InstantRails
and the Ruby One-click Installer installed.  I don't like
telling
co-workers to install both (the OCI has lots of nice
documentation
useful to Rails developers).  Also, the Ruby OCI helps when
needing to
run Ruby scripts outside of the InstantRails environment. 
Is it a
given that both of these large downloads are needed, even
though there
is some overlap?

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Dennis Sutch
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InstantRails with Ruby One-Click Installer?
user name
 2007-01-05 16:31:53 

  


  

    On 1/5/07, Dennis Sutch < dennissutch.com">dennissutch.com> wrote:

Hi.  I would like to hear how/what other users are installing for
development and reference support.&nbsp; I currently have both InstantRails
and the Ruby One-click Installer installed.  ;I don't like telling
co-workers to install both (the OCI has lots of nice documentation

useful to Rails developers). &nbsp;Also, the Ruby OCI helps when needing to
run Ruby scripts outside of the InstantRails environment. &nbsp;Is it a
given that both of these large downloads are needed, even though there

is some overlap?

The Ruby that is included in Instant Rails *is* the one-click installer. The main difference is the system modifications that the OCI installer makes (puts rubybin on the path, creates file extension associations for *.rb and *.rbw, and creates start menu entries). IR has also installed a bunch of RubyGems to support Rails (most notably the Rails gem, itself).


If you can install the OCI in the ruby subdirectory of wherever you have unzipped Instant Rails. This will give you all of these system mods without taking up any more space. But, to avoid losing the installed RubyGems in the process, you have to do it like this:


1) Temporarily rename the directory ...InstantRailsruby to something else (like ...InstantRailsruby-save).

2) Install OCI at ...InstantRailsruby.

3) Now that you've got all the nifty system mods, delete the directory ...InstantRailsruby and rename ...InstantRailsruby-save back to its original name.


Curt


  

  
  
   
     
    






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