[Mongrel] Mongrel doesn''t start under Rails 2.0.2/Win XP

Luis Lavena
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:59:17 -0000

On Jan 12, 2008 3:48 PM, Wes Gamble <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> > I''ll suggest you install a clean version of One-Click
Installer
> > (latest is 1.8.6-26) and then install your gems in a clean
> > environment.
> >
> > Ensure first you don''t have nmake or cl in your path. That
will avoid
> > gems being compiled with VC8.
> >
>
> This is kind of funny, because when rubygems 0.9.5 came out, it appeared
> that I was now _required_ to compile native gems on Windows and that is
> when I finally made sure that nmake would work to completion and
> actually compile stuff.  It sounds like you''re saying that I
should have
> waited for the pre-compiled gems to get fixed :).
>

Oh, no!

Please try upgrading rubygems to 1.0.1!!!

0.9.5 is broken for us (Windows users)!

I posted this a way back when Rails guys did the 2.dot Oh release:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2007/12/19/latest-rubygems-and-rails-is-a-deadly-combo/

I worked a few hours with Eric Hodel getting this fixed before rubygems 1.0...

Please, update to it and the pain will go away :-D

> > A mac is expensive, and will not remove the whole pain of using
> > Ruby... check some of the Leopard nightmares around the web ;-)
>
> It''s true.  But given that, in my experience, many gem and plugin
> developers test little to not at all on Windows, the Mac is the
> "platform of least surprise".  Although I''ve been able
to solve all of
> my Windows-specific Ruby issues eventually, I am just tired of having to
> spend time and energy doing that.
>

"of least surprise" ... right :-)

I also like the "think different" motto and the just offer 2 (or one)
option to "be different". If you don''t do it "the mac
way", then you
should die... :-P

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