Rails - Jan 2006 - Instant Rails 1.0 Final has been released!

This release is unchanged from release candidate 1 other than to update the
version number in the Help>>About dialog.

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails,
Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you
simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not
modify your system environment. This release of Instant Rails is for
Windows, but there are plans for ports to Linux, BSD, and OSX.

The Instant Rails home page has links for downloading and getting started
with Instant Rails:

http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/

If you already have Instant Rails installed, then be sure to read the
upgrade instructions:

http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?How_To_Upgrade

===========================Instant Rails -- Change Log
===========================
2006.01.05 Instant Rails 1.0 final

* Updated version in Help>>About dialog box to "1.0 final".

2006.01.03 Instant Rails 1.0 RC1

* Reverted Instant Rails Manager to use the file extension
  associations for editing config and log files and added
  an Instant Rails preference item to force the use of
  Notepad.exe (necessary if you have VMWare installed).

* Configure SCGI now initializes the dialog with the current
  settings instead of default values.

* Replaced One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.2 with
  ruby-mswin32 1.8.4 (which is what 1.8.4 of the One-Click
  one-click installer will be built upon).

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2005.12.24 Instant Rails 1.0 preview8

* Restored missing log directories in the sample apps.

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2005.12.13 Instant Rails 1.0 preview7
           (preview6 was a bad release)

* Included Typo 2.6.0 as a sample app

* Included RedCloth 3.0.4, BlueCloth 1.0.0, and RubyPants 0.2.0
           (used as text formatters by Typo).

* Upgraded Rails to 1.0 final

* Instant Rails now detects being run from a directory path
  that containd spaces, issues a warning, and quits.

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2005-11-08: Instant Rails 1.0 preview5

* Upgraded Rails to Rails 1.0: The Release Candidate 4 (aka 0.14.3)

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2005-11-01: Instant Rails 1.0 preview4

* Added mysql\bin to the path in console windows.

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2005-10-27: Instant Rails 1.0 preview3

* Upgraded Rails to Rails 1.0: The Release Candidate 3 (aka 0.14.2)

* Upgraded to SCGI Rails Runer 0.4.3

* Added "fxri" to the help menu.

* Fixed a problem where console windows were being opened in the
  wrong current directory. This meant that ruby\bin wasn''t being
  put on the path which, in turn, meant you couldn''t execute the
  "gem" or "rails" commands.

* Fixed several minor problems.

* Created this change log! Also, added a ToDo.txt file.
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Curt Hibbs wrote:
> Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, 
> Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No 
> installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and 
> run it. It does not modify your system environment. This release of 
> Instant Rails is for Windows, but there are plans for ports to Linux, 
> BSD, and OSX.
You''re probably going to hate this question, but I have to ask it 
anyhow. :) How difficult is it for someone to develop a Windows 
server-based web application using Instant Rails, and then migrate the 
database to SQL Server and the web server to IIS? I have an environment 
where SQL Server and IIS are the default, although we do have Windows 
Postgres and learning about/using Postgres is encouraged. MySQL and 
Apache on a Windows server would annoy the people who write my 
performance reviews :).

I think the application is a natural for Rails -- management of a 
collection of decent-sized data files, loading and unloading them to a 
database, executing analysis processes on them, archiving them, etc. 
ActiveRecord seems like the tool of choice for this application -- the 
view and analysis parts will probably be done with something else, though.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

http://linuxcapacityplanning.com

On 1/7/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net>
wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> > Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby,
> > Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No
> > installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and
> > run it. It does not modify your system environment. This release of
> > Instant Rails is for Windows, but there are plans for ports to Linux,
> > BSD, and OSX.
>
> You''re probably going to hate this question, but I have to ask it
> anyhow. :) How difficult is it for someone to develop a Windows
> server-based web application using Instant Rails, and then migrate the
> database to SQL Server and the web server to IIS? I have an environment
> where SQL Server and IIS are the default, although we do have Windows
> Postgres and learning about/using Postgres is encouraged. MySQL and
> Apache on a Windows server would annoy the people who write my
> performance reviews :).
>
> I think the application is a natural for Rails -- management of a
> collection of decent-sized data files, loading and unloading them to a
> database, executing analysis processes on them, archiving them, etc.
> ActiveRecord seems like the tool of choice for this application -- the
> view and analysis parts will probably be done with something else, though.
I haven''t done this myself, but there are a couple pages of Rails wiki
that explain how to do it:

  http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSetupIIS
  http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServer

Curt