Whats the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular" Ruby install

[Joey S. Eisma]

hello!

as the subject goes, what's the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular"
Ruby install? on windows, ActiveRuby defaults to C:\program files, while
"regular" ruby on c:\ruby.

do i need both if i use ruby as wsh script and doing "regular"
programming task?


thank you!

 

[David Vallner]

=46irst things first: there's an ActiveRuby?! Well, not that noone saw it c=
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or anything. Actually, took ActiveState bloody long now that I think of it.=
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Still, this is the first time I saw it mentioned at all.

D=C5=88a Pondelok 20 Febru=C3=A1r 2006 11:06 Joey S. Eisma nap=C3=ADsal:

hello!

as the subject goes, what's the difference of ActiveRuby and "regular"
Ruby install? on windows, ActiveRuby defaults to C:\program files, while
"regular" ruby on c:\ruby.

I suppose very little. ActiveState tends to bundle some extra Windows-speci=
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stuff along with its language distribution. Like the wsh integration,=20
possibly some other libs too. IIRC, their Python distro also had quite a bi=
t=20
of extra documentation bundled with it.

do i need both if i use ruby as wsh script and doing "regular"
programming task?

I doubt it. Whatever floats your boat, I say. I'd personally stick with jus=
t=20
one myself to avoid version mixup lossage, even if that's somewhat unlikely.

David Vallner

 

[James Britt]

First things first: there's an ActiveRuby?! Well, not that noone saw it coming
or anything. Actually, took ActiveState bloody long now that I think of it.
Still, this is the first time I saw it mentioned at all.

ActiveRuby Script

Been around for a while now.

http://arton.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

Has nothing to do with ActiveState.


--
James Britt

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion
of knowledge."
- D. Boorstin

 

[Joey S. Eisma]

hello!

im talking about wsh scripting with ruby (rubyscript).

does it have different installer with "standard" ruby.


thanks!

 

[Hal Fulton]

hello!

im talking about wsh scripting with ruby (rubyscript).

does it have different installer with "standard" ruby.

My understanding is yes, it's a different installer and
actually a different port of Ruby.

I think the actual project name is ActiveScriptRuby. Try
looking it up that way.


Hal