Recently I got loads of error messages during the gem update and install processes so I decided to remove the "standard" installer package from my XP box. Of course I wanted to hack on Ruby but trying the latest jRuby came less success: it was a damn slow stuff (DSS for me) and no luck to build merb or any gem on it.
Second turn, I tried to build Ruby from source but obviously this is for experts only having good skills and dev tools I lack. Tried Windows Services for Unix which is obviously nice but I did not need any telnet server and bunch of stuff packed the Interix, so I recommend GnuWin32 as standard unix tools; I kept that way.
Finally, I found a good installer from Fabio Akita. This installer was built with MinGW not the standard way (that is with MS C compiler) and comes with a good list of unix utils (under devkit folder). Thanks Fabio!
So what is in the box?
A bit old but hey its working fellows!
This time I wanted Merb and Sproutcore to play with so left Rails out the game :)
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Now I'm using plain Apache cgi and it "seems to be" fine, but imho if the ruby community wants to help spread ruby (which I really doubt) then much more needs to be done.
Better official/vanilla ruby package, more stable gem management, more stable gems, integration with Apache/MySql on install or Lighttpd/SqLite integrated install etc.
Btw I played with the raw cgi package on windows yesterday and it sucked a bit. I know, Apache is bad, cgi is bad and Windows is evil, but come on... :(
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