Instant Rails 1.5 preview1

rubyonrails-talk
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Instant Rails 1.5 upgrades to:

  * Rails 1.2.2   * The One-Click Installer 1.8.5-24   * Mongrel 1.0.1

You can download this release from:

   http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=904

and you can find upgrade instructions here:

   http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?How_To_Upgrade

Known Issues:

   * fxri (off of the help menu) is not working

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Monday, February 19, 2007, 7:14:49 AM, you wrote:

Instant Rails 1.5 upgrades to:   * Rails 1.2.2   * The One-Click Installer 1.8.5-24   * Mongrel 1.0.1

Does the included Apache now support HTTPS? It seems to be impossible to find a mod_ssl-Lib for it - and I don't own a compiler to build it myself...

Thanks,

hli

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Sorry, no. Instant Rails 2 will be based on XAMPP (which uses Apache 2), and this will be a better fit. But, unfortunately, that probably won't be out until the end of the year (or late summer at the earliest).

Curt

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This is great Curt. But a 54MB d/l??? Can I make a suggestion that would do many things? Why not break IR into modules? The base install should have Ruby, Rails, Mongrel and Sqlite and the IR application only.

Add in modules for Apache, MySQL, Php(phpMyAdmin) and various tools (Scite, etc.)

IR is vary popular and new releases are taxing RubyForge's servers. It can take 30 minutes on DSL to d/l.

Isn't the goal of IR to install Ruby on Rails on Windows and get running quickly? But all the extra support for running servers and a full blown interface to MySQL are adding to the bloat of the project and many people may not need all that.

What do you think?

Ed

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Ed Howland wrote:

This is great Curt. But a 54MB d/l??? Can I make a suggestion that would do many things? Why not break IR into modules? The base install should have Ruby, Rails, Mongrel and Sqlite and the IR application only.

Add in modules for Apache, MySQL, Php(phpMyAdmin) and various tools (Scite, etc.)

IR is vary popular and new releases are taxing RubyForge's servers. It can take 30 minutes on DSL to d/l.

Isn't the goal of IR to install Ruby on Rails on Windows and get running quickly? But all the extra support for running servers and a full blown interface to MySQL are adding to the bloat of the project and many people may not need all that.

What do you think?

Ed   

I don't mind the download though I guess I should feel a bit guilty. I wonder if it's possible to layer the downloads. I imagine it would be much more work for Curt, though, but here's a thought. It could be a case where you can download an extra ZIP file and unzip it in the root directory of InstantRails to get the remaining stuff. This would mean that some directories have files added to them when you unzip and there may be a need to allow the unzipper (sp?) to overwrite certain files.

But that said, its size is in line with things like XAMPP, is it not? Cheers Mohit.

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I'd rather not break it up because I prefer to retain extreme setup simplicity.

What might make sense though (for IR 2) is a have a fully functional core that includes only lightweight components (like SQLite for the database) and omits Apache and MySQL. Then optional add-on download for those components.

Curt

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you could even ship it with light weight http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/ so people can create their sqlite database and tables with a nice and simple GUI (instead of php+mysql+apache+phpmyadmin).

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Thanks for the link... I was not aware of that. I'll check it out!

Curt

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Curt Hibbs wrote:

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Curt:

+1 on sqlite… I use it in all my projects and tutorials because it doesn’t even require that you create a database… when you run your first migration it will create the db for you.

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I think we'll definitely do this... too many good reasons to ignore.

Thanks, Curt

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Curt Hibbs wrote:

Curt Hibbs wrote:

Isn't the goal of IR to install Ruby on Rails on Windows and get running quickly? But all the extra support for running servers and a full blown interface to MySQL are adding to the bloat of the project and many people may not need all that.

What do you think?

Ed

I'd rather not break it up because I prefer to retain extreme setup simplicity.

What might make sense though (for IR 2) is a have a fully functional core that includes only lightweight components (like SQLite for the database) and omits Apache and MySQL. Then optional add-on download for those components.

I agree with Ed, even if it means having a 'lite' version and a full version. I don't use InstantRails because it clashes with my existing Apache and MySQL.

regards

  Justin Forder

I think we'll definitely do this... too many good reasons to ignore.

That's great! The people I work with are skilled Java users (Spring MVC/Spring core/Hibernate), developing on Windows, with Eclipse-based tools. A minimal one-click Rails install would be perfect for them (especially if it's only a few more clicks to install RadRails and get it working with the stripped-down IR).

Looking forward to it.

   Justin Forder

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You know what we do? Repackage Curt’s One click but only after we install Rails, Mongrel, and the other gems we need. I wonder if the answer is to just include Rails inside of the One Click Installer.

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this one seems more active http://www.assembla.com/space/sqliteman

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Thanks, that looks really nice… I’ll have to give it a try.

Curt