Comments on: RubyInstaller – State of One-Click

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:41:30 +0000

Are you serious? It’s a project that needs help, one man can’t be expected to do it all himself. So rather than come here posting such comments, why don’t you try on contribute, oh wait, you probably aren’t capable of doing so.

Love the work, I personally don’t have time to contribute (nor the knowledge), and am ok with 1.8.6 at the moment (for simple deploy stuff at work). I’ll get 1.9.x installed at home though and get using it.

Re “Release early, release often” I think that’s the best/only way to go. 1.9 may be ok for a lot of people, and as bits get fixed and released, there will be less moaners.

By: RubyInstaller: Updated packages, and other news.

RubyInstaller: Updated packages, and other news. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:50:39 +0000

[...] Yes, no official Windows Installer yet, still need to iron some quirks (mentioned in previous post here) [...]

By: Felipe Coury

Felipe Coury — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:01:02 +0000

Luis, you hopefully know how to separate what’s worth from what’s not. If someone can’t realize how Windows can benefit from what you offer, it’s their problem not yours.

I for one value a lot your efforts and have donated in the past and will continue donating to this cause, whenever needed. Ruby is such a wonderful language that gets underrated because of this on-Windows “fame”.

I think you can see how much the community cares by the donation numbers. So breath and focus in criticism that’s worth it!

Keep up with the awesome work!

Best regards,

– Felipe

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:43:33 +0000

@ConventionOverConfigurationHuh: are you sure of what you’re saying?

Let’s Ruby on Windows, since you believe is my fault.

I have no problem, really. I would rather spend my time with my family and loved ones than work on things to improve the life of many users and even so, receive this kind of commenting from you.

Which, btw, you can’t stand up to your words and put your real name.

Get real.

By: ConventionOverConfigurationHuh

ConventionOverConfigurationHuh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:25 +0000

I can understand the predictable mess you find yourself in. I have worked with so many ill-conceived programmers who allways find a way to mess things up for themselves and those others whose work depends on them, and then resort to whining as evident from your post. It is because of people like you Ruby on Windows will allways have a bad reputation in the corporate world. I have tried hard to convince management to move towards open source projects like Ruby and today I feel stranded and feel like a complete idiot for suggesting so.

Do us a favour and please hand over your work to someone a bit more capable and quietly dissappeare. You will be doing the Ruby community a big service. Thank you!

By: Roy Pardee

Roy Pardee — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:39:52 +0000

Dude–bless you for this. I was just last night trying to cobble together a working 1.9 install on a vista machine from the ruby-lang.org zip file, and not having much luck.

I’ll give your beta packages a shot & see what does/doesn’t work & see which gem authors I need to start nagging.

By: Successful upgrade of Ruby 1.8.5 to 1.8.6 « Chronicling My Ruby on Rails Journey

Thu, 21 May 2009 18:04:52 +0000

[...] Ruby one click installer, about why he decided to stick with 1.8.6 and not 1.8.7. Here’s his post explaining why he stuck with 1.8.6. BTW, he hasn’t gotten much love from developers in [...]

By: opensas

opensas — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:14:42 +0000

Thanks a lot, Luis, for your efforts…

By: noniko

noniko — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:58:58 +0000

Thanks…what a precious work!

By: Maz

Maz — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:31 +0000

Thanks for the update