[ANN] Instant Rails 1.0 preview7 -- with Typo!

[Curt Hibbs]

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My apologies to all who downloaded preview6, it did not contain Rails 1.0 a=
s
advertised -- I screwed up!

Preview7 does, in fact, contain Rails 1.0 and as a bonus, also includes Typ=
o
2.6.0 as a preinstalled sample app. See the Getting Started page for
instructions on running Typo in Instant Rails:

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

Also, you can thank David Morton for getting Typo into Instant Rails (he
just joined the Instant Rails development team!).

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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 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

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2005.12.13 Instant Rails 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]

Wait about an hour before trying to download. This will give the
RubyForge mirrors time to sync and you avoid getting download errors.

Curt

 

[Dr Nic]

InstantRails is a developer's delight! I wasted a good day
unsuccessfully getting Apache etc working my laptop. With InstantRails
I could wipe away the tears.

Many ppl agree that setting up the infrastructure for Ruby + RoR is the
most challenging part of getting started - all pain and no Ruby love,
yet. So thanks for IR.

Jeez, I never write "thank you" notes about products, but if it means
another RoR newbie saves themselves a day or more by not having to set
up their environment, and subsequently perhaps not even writing a line
of Ruby code, then I'll hawk the product all day long

Nic

 

[Curt Hibbs]

Great... Thanks for letting me know!

Curt

 

[emptist]

Tried the previous version and it's terribly;-) good!

Though if there was a Postgre... things can be 300% perfect
(no, I can install Postgre myself on Windows thanks to V8. Just want to
make sure it can be used once I.R. installed)
(On Linux I tried one year ago, failed to understand how to config ...
sad)

 

[Curt Hibbs]

Tried the previous version and it's terribly;-) good!

Though if there was a Postgre... things can be 300% perfect
(no, I can install Postgre myself on Windows thanks to V8. Just want to
make sure it can be used once I.R. installed)
(On Linux I tried one year ago, failed to understand how to config ...
sad)

Its been a learning experience for me. Before I started this I knew
next to nothing about configuring Apache. Now I'm two steps away from
knowing nothing ;-)

Fortunately, David Morton just joined the Instant Rails dev team, and
he knows a lot more than I do!

Curt

 

[Clifford Heath]

Curt,

My thanks for putting IR together. After the "fun" I had
trying to get it working on Debian last year, I was torn
about recommending Rails to my son. He's now installed IRp7
and it's fantastic to have a bundle with Apache, MySQL, RoR,
etc all pre-configured. I'm writing this for him as he's just
moved house and has no connectivity yet. So thanks!

Unfortunately he's still having a few problems with it. I had
a little play with his install last night and couldn't figure
out how to diagnose them.

The mycookbook app creates its console window, and if you de-
iconify it quickly enough, you get a glimpse of a "not found"
error with a Ruby backtrace before the window vanishes. Is
there any logfile or global exception catcher that saves the
error text? Impossible to diagnose the problem when it vanishes!

He mentioned that you haven't worked out how to create an
invisible console window. I don't know if that's a Ruby problem,
but at the Windows API level, you have to use the "ShowWindow"
option in the STARTUPINFO structure that you pass as the ninth
parameter to CreateProcess. Set wShowWindow to SW_HIDE and set
dwFlags to include STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW, and the command window
won't display.

However, I do recommend that for debugging purposes, you allow
the window to be optionally displayed - and preferably to catch
an exception and allow it to be read before the window closes!

Happy Saturnalia, everyone!

Clifford Heath.

 

[Curt Hibbs]

See the first entry in the FAQ:

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

I think this same problem is happenning with the cookbook app.
Arrrrggg... I gotta get a new release out with this fixed.

Curt

PS
Glad you like Instant Rails!

 

[Clifford Heath]

See the first entry in the FAQ:

Thanks Curt - sorry for not having read the FAQ first
(as I said, my son was off the net at the time). But I
thought you'd like his comment:

"Rails feels like cheating. This really is too easy..."