[ANN] Instant Rails 1.0 preview2 Released

[Curt Hibbs]

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There was a serious bug in the SCGI Rails Runner that is
corrected in preview2. If you already preview1, then just
download "SCGI_Rails-0.3.1-Update.zip" instead of preview2
and follow the instructions in readme.txt.

The home page for Instant Rails is at:

http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/

Especially, see the FAQ page for answers to common questions:

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

The download page is at:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3D904

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Instant Rails 1.0 preview1 Released

A preview release of Instant Rails 1.0 for Windows is available for
download.
There are still a number of rough edges, but it is essentially functional
and
usable (see a list of planned changes for the 1.0 release at the end).

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails,
Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you
simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not
modify your system environment.

This release of Instant Rails for Windows, but there are plans for ports
to Linux, BSD, and OSX.

Instant Rails includes the full source code of the cookbook application
developed in the [Rolling with Ruby on Rails] tutorial. Once you have
installed Instant Rails, you can verify that everything is working properly
by running this cookbook application.

Instant Rails includes a number of open source software packages. Below is =
a
list of all included software.

Primary Instant Rails Components
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* [Instant Rails Manager] 1.0 preview1

* [Ruby 1.8.2] (from the [One-Click Ruby Installer] 182-15)

* [Ruby on Rails] 0.13.1

* [Apache] 1.3.33

* [MySQL] 4.1.9

* [SCGI] 1.7

* [SCGI Rails Runner] 0.3.1

* [phpMyAdmin] 2.6.1

Ancillary Instant Rails Components
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These components are not the primary focus of Instant Rails, but are
included
because the primary components above depend upon them..

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 4.3.10

* [Rake] 0.6.2

* [cmdparse] 2.0.0


Install & Verify
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Follow these steps to install Instant Rails and verify that it is working
properly:

* Download and unzip the Instant Rails zip file.

* Start InstantRails?.exe.

* Instant Rails will detect that it is being started from a new
directory and ask if you want to have it update the paths in the
all of the configuration files... Just say yes.

* Click on the I button to drop down the main menu and select
Configure > Windows Hosts file.

* In the editor that pops up, add this line to the end of the file:

127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> http://www.mycookbook.com

* Save the change and exit the editor.

* In the main menu, select Rails Applications > Manage Rails Applications..=