> Many will dis it but I have found Instant Rails well suited to exactly > that (if you have to work in windows). The latest version of Instant > Rails is old and uses Rails 2.0 or so it can be upgraded using gems > (look on this list for problems with that other have had) to at least > 2.3. I do not know the score on 3.0 as I have not gotten there yet. IR > integrates all of the stuff for ROR including Ruby, the db server > (mysql) and mongrel (I think, if not you can install it using gem > install) You can just freeze all of your gems and away you go.
I had not thought about IR but it actually would not work in this case, I think. To make the whole picture "even better" the client will not only use Windows but MSSQL as well, which is how the whole mess started actually (ODBC problems). In order to use MSSQL I have to install some gems that need the DevKit and DevKit needs Ruby to be installed with the Rubyinstaller (if I remember the name well). That would probably not work (I could be wrong) with Ruby installed from IR. Also the Rails version will probably need to be upgraded to make all our applications "compatible". Manually installing Ruby and Mongrel and then freezing gems into the application might be the way to go here. I'll be trying out Marnen's suggestions for that and I will also try to replace the ODBC dependency with something like 'tiny_tds' and see how that works. Thanks though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
