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Well, after some time and a bunch of helpful contributions, here comes an updated version of rb-readline.

This version is mainly a bug fixing release:

• Accept ‘cygwin’ as valid terminal [rogerdpack]
• Accept ‘dumb’ as valid terminal. Closes GH-7
• Fix crash when performing reverse look search. Closes GH-6

Install instructions

1. Download rb-readline-0.2.0.zip from GitHub downloads
2. Extract to a folder and open a command prompt there (or cd into it)
3. Execute ruby setup.rb

That should update the installed rb-readline. Just to verify, execute the following in the command prompt:

ruby -rreadline -e "puts Readline::RB_READLINE_VERSION"

The output should say 0.2.0

More to come

Stay tuned for upcoming announcements, we are cooking RC for RubyInstaller! And at the same time, updated website, more documentation at the Wiki and of course, tutorials full of success!

Please join us at RubyInstaller Google Group and share your questions or issues!

So, I think this may be good news for some folks.

February 24, 2009 is the date that Jamis Buck marked as the end of several of his open source projects, including SQLite3/Ruby. (you can read the post here)

Previously, he asked for help updating SQLite3/Ruby to make it work on Windows.

That sad news left a lot of us with a bad taste, and very unhappy, not because we no longer will have someone to complain at, but because he no longer enjoyed working on those projects.

Continue Reading

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!

How to vote?

Good question! You can click this link, share http://poll.fm/111u6 on Twitter or use the embedded poll widget below! Good luck, please vote (and do not cheat!)

Updated: Voting ends July 23, 2009, 11:59pm GMT-3

Updated: Voting has officially ended

Please go here to read the results.

So, guess what? There are already 3 designers running for the pledgie prize collected for One-Click Installer new home!

Check those over there:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/website-contest

This is excellent news. Thank you guys for participating!

Deadline

I’m aiming to close submissions June 19, 2009. So if you have a design or idea, mock it up and add to the wiki page, point to a blog post or something and let the public know you’re participating!

UPDATE: Deadline extended until Monday, June 22, 2009 at 8pm Argentine Timezone (GMT-3)

Logo

As Pavel mentioned over the wiki page:

I like it, but I was not sure about the shape of ruby gem.

This is something weird since Ruby users are used to see Ruby logo with the shape of a diamond, which is incorrect.

Let me explain it better: the mineral ruby can be cut in diamond shape, but is really uncommon.

More common shapes are facetted balls or emerald cuts. Take a look here for more examples.

Almost every package, tool or library associated with Ruby tends to use a diamond cut ruby as logo.

When analyzed this detail with Rodolfo Budeguer from Estudio Domo, we found that sticking to that shape would not only fall into the repetition (and be a copycat), but also move away from the goal of it.

If you pay close attention, will noticed that the emerald cut of RubyInstaller shows the 4 colors that are also present in… the Windows logo.

Why is that? Well, because is Ruby Installer for Windows

Voting and Deliverables

Once again, would like to mention public voting would define the selected design. No new design will be accepted after the deadline above mentioned. So make room to do the mockups soon!

Also, once we have the final votes for the designs. Selected designer should provide generated versions of mockups in CSS and HTML content, preferable in a public Git repository.

I’m so excited about this that I’m blogging at 4am!

Thanks again to Silviu, Francesco and Pavel to contribute and participate. Also other people that privately sent some feedback about RubyInstaller itself, not just the website