As previous announced, contest entry is now closed.
You can review all the designs submitted here, and also read the comments from each designer.
In no special order:
- Thuva Tharma
- Ben Alpert
- Silviu Postavaru
- Francesco Agnoletto
- Pavel Macek
Thanks again the designers who submitted entries!
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Updated: Voting ends July 23, 2009, 11:59pm GMT-3
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RubyInstaller: Voting is over and the results are……
Hello Hello!
I’m happy to announce — 24 hours late on it — that the voting is over for the website contest I started last month for getting RubyInstaller (known as OneClick) a new home.
Thank all the designers who participated
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When does voting end?
Yikes!, Updating post!
Done!, thanks!
I always forget those small details
Thank you Ben!
A whole month? Wow, that’s a long time to wait…
Well, okey dokey.
There a few candidates so let me see:
Thuva’s site is nicely compact but it does not have much in the way of distinctive style. That may be better for a site that you use often, though. You do not want your eyes pierced by flashy graphics every time you browse there. Unfortunately there is very little on the top page except numerous releases. Other information would be more useful – releases are generally obsolete the moment a newer one is out, and you can have a lin to archive instead of full list.
The other sites are much flashier, at least in theory.
Silviu’s site does not have background so I see black and gray text on green-gray background. I would expect more from a web design. There’s also very little on this top page.
Francesco’s site has no HTML, only jpeg, and likely for a good reason. Show me that etiquette done in HTML+CSS without making all browsers crumble. Besides that there is something like too much red and that jpeg is at least close to that. The content, on the other hand, is quite scarce among the flashy stuff.
Ben’s page is one of the pages I like at the first glance – modest selection of stuff that displays on the top page, pretty good colour balance. However, the eye-hurting black text on white background is combined with soft white text on bright coloured background. Certainly a contrast mismatch. Further the site does not fit into my window. Is the width fixed at 600px or what? What’s worst is lack of references to information that is not present on the top page. Almost no links at all.
The best in my view is the Pavel’s site. It’s still in eye-hurting black on white but at least it’s consistent. There are quite a few way too large images, and the whole page does not fit into my browser window, even when I disable gkrellm. Perhaps a designer 22″ widescreen? However, this page has it all. The links at the bottom are a miracle – downloads, bug reports, faq, mailing lists, dev docs all just one click from the top page. No need to search obscure ‘contribution’ and ‘development’ links without any clue under which category a particular link like ‘bug tracker’ would fall.
Finally I would like to ask what is this “Knowledge base” or even “Latest knowledge news”. I can understand FAQ, Wiki, announcements/news, or even latest or most visited Wiki pages. But what is a “Knowledge base” or “Knowledge News” in the context of a project like Ruby One Click Installer escapes me.
Tough choice, all the designs look nice
I wonder by the way – what’s the ETA of the one-click installer for 1.9.1? Or does anybody have a link to a good tutorial for getting Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 2.3, preferrably with Apache and MySQL, running on a Windows machine?
Otherwise, I’ll just have to go about making such a tutorial myself
@hramrach: I believe your feedback has value, so I decided to approve your comment. See my comments below.
What was asked for this face was a design mockup, with organization of elements mentioned here:
http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/19/rubyinstaller-one-clicks-need-a-new-home-can-you-help-him/
HTML and CSS will be provided by the winner at the end.
This approach is quite common in design industry. You first mockup an idea, then get deliverables in the proper format.
Some of your comments about cross-browser compatibility are good, but keep in mind the designs presented, even on HTML are mockups. They need final tweaks and adjustments to match the RubyInstaller brand.
Thanks!
Well, during that period I want to work on One-Click itself, cannot overlap work on the website too
Ideally also is to attract more money to the pledgie, not just the one shown now.
@Guido: Don’t want to be rude but please search the blog for when 1.9 installer
http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/05/rubyinstaller-state-of-one-click/
Also, please see the news announcement at RubyForge:
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=33233
And a post in the mailing list:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2009-June/000661.html
Apologize not getting the message spread.
Voted
@Luis: My thorough apologies, I did read those things (except for the devel-mainlinglist, I subscribed to that now) and I appreciate what you’re doing! Really, I love your work, and I see how it’s a huge lot.
It’s just that I can’t wait to have 1.9.1 installed, with all the new features and shiny things, and I was asking about an ETA, not whether you are doing something or not. I know you are
I hadn’t seen this page here before either: http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master – it seems to be what I need in order to understand what I can do for installing Ruby 1.9.1 with the One-Click installer?
I have started that little tutorial of mine anyway, here: http://www.haslo.ch/blog/assessing-installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows-7/ – looks like I’ll be able to use and test the pre-release one-click installer after all. I want a full-blown Rails development environment, so I will need to do more research anyway, might just as well share it.
Just to clarify again: I don’t mean to rant or flame or tell you to finally get that one-click installer done or anything. I do want to help. I just don’t quite know where to start.
@Guido
It’s just that I can’t wait to have 1.9.1 installed, with all the new features and shiny things
You can download pre-compiled binaries from here:
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
As commented here:
http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/17/rubyinstaller-updated-packages-and-other-news/
To make it build Ruby 1.9, just do rake ruby19
Anyhow, try avoid compiling it yourself, since debugging will be difficult with different compilation methods and such.
Regarding mysql and sqlite3, take a look to my mysql-gem and sqlite3-ruby forks at GitHub.
Keep me updated with your blog post, I’ll love to include it as a resource for the new website!
Will do, and thanks for the links!
Yes, I read that spec page you link above, and looked at it once more. And I still do not see the Knowledge Base all the mockups have.
@hramrach: sorry, it got renamed from Getting Started Resources (info and links) to Knowledge Base in the middle, and shown in the pledgie itself:
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/4435
Good selection to choose from. Tough to make a choice, they were all good.
I meanwhile made that little tutorial for getting Ruby on Rails working:
http://www.haslo.ch/blog/actually-installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows-7/
However, as you said there’s still plenty of stuff that doesn’t work. I gave up on MySQL myself and opted for PostgreSQL instead, since that works pretty much out of the box.
@Luis, you have any idea where the segmentation faults of the Mongrel and MySQL gems come from? I guess in the case of the MySQL gem it’s an improperly precompiled dll, does Mongrel have some of those, too? Who does those precompiles, with what tools, and how can I help out?
Sorry if I’m asking obvious things again…
@Guido:
MySQL:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/b87dbd80b79f516a
Also, you’re forcing gems from mswin32…
Read my previous post on the subject:
http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/08/10/rubygems-with-power-comes-responsibility/
That applies to manual installed gems too.
HTH.
And the winner is…?
Writing that post as we speak!