wxruby users - Jan 2004 - wxRuby Windows installer available for testing

I have a first cut of a windows installer for wxRuby available for testing.
It can be downloaded with this URL:

    http://curthibbs.us/wxruby-mswin-0.2_debug.zip

This installer currently assumes that you have installed Ruby from Andy
Hunt''s one-click Ruby Installer for Windows, *and* that you have
installed
it in the default directory (C:\ruby). I still need to figure out how to
read the windows registry from the NSIS installer script, then ruby can be
installed anywhere.

In the start menu I create a wxRuby group with shortcuts to run the sample
apps and to display "wxRuby Help" (which is just a freshly updated
version
of the "Poor man''s doc of wxRuby").

As soon as I figure out how to detect the ruby install location from an NSIS
install script, I will regenerate this installer and create another one for
a release version of wxRuby.

Curt

Curt Hibbs (curt@hibbs.com) wrote:
> I have a first cut of a windows installer for wxRuby available for testing.
Well done, Curt!

It is definitely great step in broadening wxruby user base.
> In the start menu I create a wxRuby group with shortcuts to run the sample
> apps and to display "wxRuby Help" (which is just a freshly
updated version
> of the "Poor man''s doc of wxRuby").
Although samples run fine from the MSDOS prompt, I cannot run them from the
wxRuby group.

Sincerely,
Gour

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Gour wrote:
> 
> Curt Hibbs (curt@hibbs.com) wrote:
> 
> > I have a first cut of a windows installer for wxRuby available 
> for testing.
> 
> Well done, Curt!
Thanks
> It is definitely great step in broadening wxruby user base.
> 
> > In the start menu I create a wxRuby group with shortcuts to run 
> the sample
> > apps and to display "wxRuby Help" (which is just a freshly 
> updated version
> > of the "Poor man''s doc of wxRuby").
> 
> Although samples run fine from the MSDOS prompt, I cannot run 
> them from the
> wxRuby group.
Do you have Andy''s one-click installer on your system? It creates a
windows association that runs rubyw.exe when an *.rbw is opened. I renamed the
samples with an *.rbw extension and created shortcuts to open them.

Can you browse to them in windows explorer and double-click on one of the
samples to run it? If that doesn''t work then the *.rbw association is
messed up somehow, and I''d try reinstalling the Ruby Installer for
Windows.

Curt

I have just posted an updated test version of the Windows installer for
wxRuby at:

     http://curthibbs.us/wxruby-mswin-0.2_debug.zip

This version reads the windows registry to determine where ruby was
installed, which currently must be from Andy''s 180-10 installer.

Unfortunately, the only registry key created contains the version number
"180-10", so when Andy makes an installer for Ruby 1.8.1, the registry
key
will contain "181-1" and my installer won''t be able to find
it.

I''m sending Andy a proposal for registering the installation
information in
a version-independent manner. If he adopts this, then our installer will
continue to work (without change) with future versions of Andy''s
installer.

Kevin, as soon as you have labeled the cvs repository for the 0.2 release
(don''t forget to include my readme.mswin and extconf.rb patch) I will
retrieve the source one last time and create a debug and release version of
the wxRuby installer.

Curt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:52 AM
> To: wxRuby
> Cc: gour@mail.inet.hr; Curt Hibbs
> Subject: wxRuby Windows installer available for testing
>
>
> I have a first cut of a windows installer for wxRuby available
> for testing.
> It can be downloaded with this URL:
>
>     http://curthibbs.us/wxruby-mswin-0.2_debug.zip
>
> This installer currently assumes that you have installed Ruby from Andy
> Hunt''s one-click Ruby Installer for Windows, *and* that you have
installed
> it in the default directory (C:\ruby). I still need to figure out how to
> read the windows registry from the NSIS installer script, then ruby can be
> installed anywhere.
>
> In the start menu I create a wxRuby group with shortcuts to run the sample
> apps and to display "wxRuby Help" (which is just a freshly
updated version
> of the "Poor man''s doc of wxRuby").
>
> As soon as I figure out how to detect the ruby install location
> from an NSIS
> install script, I will regenerate this installer and create
> another one for
> a release version of wxRuby.
>
> Curt
>
>
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Curt Hibbs (curt@hibbs.com) wrote:
> Do you have Andy''s one-click installer on your system? It creates
a windows
> association that runs rubyw.exe when an *.rbw is opened. I renamed the
> samples with an *.rbw extension and created shortcuts to open them.
It does not work, at least on my Win98.
> Can you browse to them in windows explorer and double-click on one of the
> samples to run it? If that doesn''t work then the *.rbw association
is messed
> up somehow, and I''d try reinstalling the Ruby Installer for
Windows.
(re-install did not bring any result.)

Maybe it''s problem just on my system. I''m anyway accustomed to
work
within MSYS environment (when on Win98). Let''s hear if it works for
others.

Sincerely,
Gour

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Gour
gour@mail.inet.hr
Registered Linux User #278493