[ANN] RubyInstaller 1.8.7-p330 released

[Luis Lavena]

Hello,

I'm very pleased to announce the release of RubyInstaller packages for
Ruby 1.8.7-p330

As usual, installer and 7z-packages are available at RubyInstaller
website and RubyForge for download:

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3D167&release_id=3D45313

For verification, MD5 signatures are provided:

7419f0358afbd6fcc8a35cc322516f5d *ruby-1.8.7-p330-doc-chm.7z
c3cf8f2140d8e9b716e83f96a40c11bd *ruby-1.8.7-p330-i386-mingw32.7z
940d44183dd19f2ad23addcc5de51eb3 *rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p330.exe

Installer is also digitally signed to avoid alterations and UAC warnings.

You can read Ruby 1.8.7-p330 announcement and release notes at ruby-talk:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/375963

=3D What is new?

Beyond what is covered by Ruby itself, we have our own set of improvements:

=3D=3D Updated compiler toolchain to GCC 4.5.1

This is in sync with latest DevKit release announced:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/348cae999=
11975ba

=3D=3D Friendly gem installation error messages for gems that require compi=
lation.

Most of the times, people find confusing the massive error messages
they receive when installing gems that require compilation and no
compiler toolchain available.

We customized this release to provide a nicer error message and
helpful instructions to the user where to obtain a compiler and what
to do with it.

Example:

C:\Users\Luis>gem install RedCloth
ERROR: Error installing RedCloth:
The 'RedCloth' native gem requires installed build tools.

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit
from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions
at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit'

We hope with this message will be make things more easy for Ruby users
to figure out what is going on.

Regards,
--=20
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry

 

[Luis Lavena]

For verification, MD5 signatures are provided:

7419f0358afbd6fcc8a35cc322516f5d *ruby-1.8.7-p330-doc-chm.7z
c3cf8f2140d8e9b716e83f96a40c11bd *ruby-1.8.7-p330-i386-mingw32.7z
940d44183dd19f2ad23addcc5de51eb3 *rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p330.exe

Correction, above MD5 were incorrect, the correct ones are:

f35416cefab6d7ed328340cc615970b7 *ruby-1.8.7-p330-doc-chm.7z
46224c144c21c8da0d17dc30857ff18f *ruby-1.8.7-p330-i386-mingw32.7z
18d688cfae6e60857cad24da6f9ee055 *rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p330.exe

Apologies for the confusion.

--=20
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
-
Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry