Freeride users - Feb 2006 - [FR-users] New user - slight glitch first time out of the box

Hi all,

I''m new to Ruby and to FreeRIDE, and so far very excited by what
I''ve seen. :)

I posted on the FreeRIDE wiki about a problem that I had installing
for the first time on a Windows ME laptop that I have.   Rather than
repeat myself I''ll refer you there:

http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?GettingHelp

My problem is now fixed so all is good, but I figure I should file a
bug report with someone.   Unfortunately, I''m not yet Ruby-literate
enough to do "due diligence" to write a meaningful report.   For that
matter, I wouldn''t know where to file it!

FWIW, though, I can report that the problem doesn''t happen on Windows
XP Home sp 2.   If I had to guess, I''d imagine it''s probably
only on
Wins 98 and ME, which are lousy OSes, but no reason not to report this
anyway unless FreeRIDE is limited to requiring a fairly modern OS.

Anyone willing and able to show a new user the ropes?

thanks,

Philip

philip reed wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I''m new to Ruby and to FreeRIDE, and so far very excited by what
I''ve seen. :)
> 
> I posted on the FreeRIDE wiki about a problem that I had installing
> for the first time on a Windows ME laptop that I have.   Rather than
> repeat myself I''ll refer you there:
> 
> http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?GettingHelp
> 
> My problem is now fixed so all is good, but I figure I should file a
> bug report with someone.   Unfortunately, I''m not yet
Ruby-literate
> enough to do "due diligence" to write a meaningful report.   For
that
> matter, I wouldn''t know where to file it!
> 
> FWIW, though, I can report that the problem doesn''t happen on
Windows
> XP Home sp 2.   If I had to guess, I''d imagine it''s
probably only on
> Wins 98 and ME, which are lousy OSes, but no reason not to report this
> anyway unless FreeRIDE is limited to requiring a fairly modern OS.
> 
> Anyone willing and able to show a new user the ropes?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Philip

Philip,

Thanks for your feedback. FR is supposed to work on Win 98/Me although 
as you said they are flaky OSes and a few aspects of them prevent FR 
from working properly (limitation on IO and threads for instance that 
makes the debugger unstable).

You can however log this bug to the FR bug tracker on Rubyforge

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=31&atid=202

I suggest that you first create on account on RubyForge so that you 
are known and email notification will be sent to you whenever the bug 
is updated.

I have also cc''ed Jonathan Maasland who is the owner of the project 
manager module.

Laurent



-- 
Laurent JULLIARD
http://www.moldus.org/~laurent

Laurent,

Thanks so much for the welcome and the tips on bug entry.

Alas, two attempts to register at rubyforge.org proved fruitless.  
Each time I got the confirmation email, clicked on the link to
confirm, and was prompted to log in.   But typing in the relevant user
name and password gave the dreaded reply:

Access denied

Credentials you entered do not correspond to valid account [sic].

If any RubyForge admins are on this list, the problematic accounts are
PhilipR and PhilipReed; I succeeded in changing the password in the
former but then was told that my account still needed to be verified,
with the same problem of my login not recognized as valid.

Can someone confirm that the registration mechanism for rubyforge is
in fact working?   Again this problem was on Windows ME (which I can''t
imagine would matter, unless Firefox were mangling the passwords or
something!), but I''ll try from an XP machine tomorrow just for
variation.

thanks,

Philip

On 2/7/06, Laurent Julliard <laurent at moldus.org>
wrote:
> philip reed wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I''m new to Ruby and to FreeRIDE, and so far very excited by
what I''ve seen. :)
> >
> > I posted on the FreeRIDE wiki about a problem that I had installing
> > for the first time on a Windows ME laptop that I have.   Rather than
> > repeat myself I''ll refer you there:
> >
> > http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?GettingHelp
> >
> > My problem is now fixed so all is good, but I figure I should file a
> > bug report with someone.   Unfortunately, I''m not yet
Ruby-literate
> > enough to do "due diligence" to write a meaningful report.  
For that
> > matter, I wouldn''t know where to file it!
> >
> > FWIW, though, I can report that the problem doesn''t happen on
Windows
> > XP Home sp 2.   If I had to guess, I''d imagine it''s
probably only on
> > Wins 98 and ME, which are lousy OSes, but no reason not to report this
> > anyway unless FreeRIDE is limited to requiring a fairly modern OS.
> >
> > Anyone willing and able to show a new user the ropes?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Philip
>
>
> Philip,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. FR is supposed to work on Win 98/Me although
> as you said they are flaky OSes and a few aspects of them prevent FR
> from working properly (limitation on IO and threads for instance that
> makes the debugger unstable).
>
> You can however log this bug to the FR bug tracker on Rubyforge
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=31&atid=202
>
> I suggest that you first create on account on RubyForge so that you
> are known and email notification will be sent to you whenever the bug
> is updated.
>
> I have also cc''ed Jonathan Maasland who is the owner of the
project
> manager module.
>
> Laurent
>
>
>
> --
> Laurent JULLIARD
> http://www.moldus.org/~laurent
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