Ok everybody, it is time for the second preview release of the new installers!
This time, it came with lot of surprises, keep reading if you want to know.
From where I can grab this?
Good question, let me point you:
No, is not the Coming soon placeholder we had, it is fresh 
What contains these new installers?
Let’s see over RubyForge release notes for Technology Preview2
Bundles Core and Standard Library documentation as CHM.
Yes, now you have a searchable and Windows-friendly version of the documentation, even with embed source code, so you can check it even offline.
Bundles The Book of Ruby.
Previous installers provided Programming Ruby book, and while we appreciate it, references to the language had changed a bit since it’s release (was first edition).
Now, Courtesy of Huw Collingbourne from SapphireSteel, people can enjoy the book. The only bummer is that requires PDF, but you can go with fat Adobe Reader or slim FoxIt Reader
Upgraded RubyGems
Both 1.8 and 1.9 packages contains latest version of RubyGems, which you could manually do, anyway 
Bugfixes
Of course, we always fix bugs on every release, and if we don’t have one, we fake them 
Where to ask questions?
Pleased to announce the new group at Google Groups.
Feel free to join us. First message is going to be moderated but not because we censor what you say, but because of spam (we like you)
What’s next?
There are still some pending things in the TODO
And you can see we got more contributors feel free to contribute you too!
Still questions?
Please check the FAQ over GitHub
Thanks
A huge thank you to everybody that contributed with patches, suggestions, bug reports, content and design!
Thanks a lot for your hard work!
Luis strikes again!
Cheers dude, everytime you post a new version, ruby on windows gets to be less painful. Where would we be without your hard work, all snobby on macs?
Addendum: You ought to hide the One-Click installer packages on RubyForge, they show up before the new ones, bit confusing for newcomers.
@Thomas:
It is a RubyForge problem. It display all the packages even you explicitly highlighted one.
Once we reach stable, the OCI is going to become deprecated and archived.
@Luis:
Ah, I see.
One more thing, is it possible to get RI docs included in the dist for core/stdlib? Being able to do `ri File.new` is really convenient.
I also noticed something weird, when I did a gem install rails (on 1.9.1 preview 2), it didn’t print anything until it had installed all packages and started to generate RI docs – Not sure if that’s a gem issue or a ruby installer one?
Thanks again for all your hard work. The faster you can get it released the better – Open those floodgates for win32 binaries for the future.
@Thomas: This was discussed over the old mailing list:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2009-July/000697.html
For questions about if something is a bug or not, use the group.
For confirmed bugs with the installer, the packages and the process, use the tracker.
For bugs in Ruby, use Ruby redmine.
For the gem install issue, I’ve commented here:
http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/07/06/getting-started-with-rails-and-sqlite3/
There is no visual feedback of RubyGems installing stuff.
Sorry to bother you once more – I’m not sure if this belongs on rails or rubyinstaller; With preview 2, rails doesn’t seem to work, both 1.8.6 and 1.9.1, with rails 2.3.3. It simply gives error 500, even for a simple ‘welcome controller’ example. Doesn’t happen with preview 1 though.
I’ll be happy to repost this where it belongs if you could direct me to the right place.
@Thomas: I’ve pointed above the resources, the group where to ask or where to report bugs with the installer.
A 500 error without the log information doesn’t help. Please also try the getting started tutorials first.
Gah, scratch that. In my hurry I forgot to install sqlite3-ruby. I wish rails would actually give you a useful error, not just explicably bail out.
Sorry about that.