Following the book, I try: cap --apply-to C:\CapPlanner\trunk\Source capplanner And get in reply: C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1443:in `complete': invalid option: --apply-to (OptionParser::InvalidOption) from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1441:in `catch' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1441:in `complete' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `parse_in_order' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:in `catch' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:in `parse_in_order' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1241:in `order!' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1332:in `permute!' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1353:in `parse!' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ capistrano-2.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli/options.rb:117:in `parse_options!' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ capistrano-2.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli/options.rb:15:in `parse' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ capistrano-2.1.0/lib/capistrano/cli/execute.rb:14:in `execute' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ capistrano-2.1.0/bin/cap:4 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/cap:16:in `load' from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/cap:16
I can replace the \'s in the path with /'s, or the whole thing with '.'. It does not matter.
I installed fastthread (1.0-mswin32) as suggested. ruby -v 1.8.6 cap -V 2.1.0 InstaRails 1.7