Rails development environment installer for Windows
The goal of this project is to generate an installer that when run installs all of the most common components for a Rails development environment with no required prerequisites on a Windows system.
RailsInstaller is bootstrapped, built and packaged via rake tasks.
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Download and install the latest RailsInstaller from http://railsinstaller.org/
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Bootstrap the project, from the project root run
rake bootstrap
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Install latest Inno Setup Quick Start Pack, ensure iscc.exe is in your PATH
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[[ hackety hack... ]]
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Download and build all components on the stage
rake build
- Use Inno Setup to package RailsInstaller
rake package
- Use the generated RailsInstaller.exe, be happy and prosperous! Be sure to share it with all of your friends!
A MSYS/MinGW based toolkit that enables RailsInstaller to build native C/C++ packages, both for Ruby and gems. DevKit is built and maintained by the wonderful folks over at the RubyInstaller (http://rubyinstaller.org/) project.
RubyInstaller is a self contained package installer which installs Ruby and RubyGems on a windows system, head over to http://rubyinstaller.org/ for more information.
We are using Inno Setup, a free installer for Windows programs.