[wxruby-users] Ruby 1.9.1, WxRuby, and Windows

Alex Fenton
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:46:17 -0000

Hi Jamal

Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> I''m not on the general ruby-talk list at present, and have some
questions
> that, somewhat surprisingly, I could not find answers to, despite much web
> searching.
>
> Is the official version of Ruby 1.9.1 delayed?

It''s now released:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/35e963933f9d0b1a#

> Does WxRuby work with Ruby 1.9.1 preview?  I thought I read a message
> on this list that said this was working.  It may well be the case
> with other operating systems, but I have not been able to get it to
> work with the binary version of Ruby 1.9.1 preview available from the
> ruby-lang site.

The wxRuby code base is fully compatible with ruby 1.9.1 and works well.
The main shortcoming is the lack of binaries for Windows - both for Ruby
itself and wxRuby. We''ll be offering at least a MingW version of wxRuby
2.0 for Ruby 1.9.

best
alex