RailsInstaller 2 for Windows released

By Wayne E. Seguin | September 7th, 2011 at 1:09PM

After over 70,000 downloads of RailsInstaller for Windows, it is with great excitement we have released RailsInstaller 2 for Windows. You may download it from the RailsInstaller website.

What’s special about RailsInstaller 2 for Windows? I’m glad you asked.

Exciting feature number one is the most requested addition of all time: Ruby 1.9.2. Many thanks to Luis Lavena and the Ruby/Windows community for all the hard work ensuring that many gems function on Windows with Ruby 1.9.

Exciting feature number two is a small improvement we like to call: Rails 3.1. Here at the World Headquarters of RailsInstaller, we’ve been waiting and waiting for the Rails 3.1 final release. Like Dr Nic, my favorite feature of Rails 3.1 is ActiveRecord’s prepared statement support. SQLite3, PostgreSQL and SQL Server now use prepared statements to yield “2x faster for simple queries and 10x faster for complex ones!”

Exciting feature number three is for you if you are using SQL Server on Windows: the latest ActiveRecord SQL Server Adapter, TinyTDS and FreeTDS are now included! TinyTDS is a project from Ken Collins that allows you to use FreeTDS to connect to Microsoft SQL Server databases. That is, everything you need to create Rails applications for your existing SQL Server database is included within RailsInstaller 2 for Windows!

Alternately you can continue using SQLite3 which continues to be packaged with RailsInstaller and is still the default adapter for new Rails 3.1 applications.

Slightly more minor but still very exciting improvements:

Bundler is bundled (pun intended) as well and is now version 1.0.18.
Git has also been upgraded to version 1.7.6.

Keep in mind that the goal of RailsInstaller remains making it as simple as possible for someone to get started with Ruby and Rails. If you have any ideas on how we can make things even easier, please let us know.

RailsInstaller 2 for Windows is for using and for sharing with others. Let your friends, family and colleagues bask in the goodness that is Ruby! You know in your heart that you would love nothing more than your own grandmother hacking with Ruby!!!

http://twitter.com/jrhicks jrhicks

What is the difference between FreeTDS and ODBC based adapters? It was my impression that the ODBC versions were better tested. Thanks!
http://blog.mmediasys.com Luis Lavena

ODBC is way of connecting was not only slower, but really complicated get compiled and installed on Windows, even with DevKit and lot of help.

SQL Server adapter in Rails now uses FreeTDS behind TinyTDS ruby adapter. FreeTDS is well known in Linux world for offering fast, socket-based connection to SQLServer and Sybase.

The team now brings that joy to Windows ;-)
http://twitter.com/julionc Julio Napurí

RailsInstaller 2 has rails version is 3.1.0.rc6. Update it!
http://blog.mmediasys.com Luis Lavena

Done! Wayne fixed this (uploaded an old installer instead of the new one). Sorry about that!
someone’s grandmother

awesome news!
http://twitter.com/j_mccaffrey John McCaffrey

This is great! I’ve been telling windows users to give it a try, its no longer impossible to do Ruby and Rails development on windows. Just think of all the paper you will save, now that every rails related book out there can simply reference RailsInstaller.org instead of dedicating all those pages (which usually end up being out of date anyways).
http://twitter.com/j_mccaffrey John McCaffrey

the link for the sql server improvements contains an extra /2011 it shoudl be http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/sql-server-10xs-faster-with-rails-3-1/
Melissa Sheehan

Fixed. Thanks for the catch John.
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Anonymous

it looks like rails.bat has a error it points to C:/Projects/railsinstaller/Stage/Ruby1.9.2/bin/rails instead of the installer folder C:/railsinstaller/Ruby1.9.2/bin/rails
Jd

Too many missing gems and their dependencies, broadly speaking , still buggy and not for me , usable.
Jd

Turn gem not included , which has dependencies, therefore doesn’t work.
Zhiva

“The server at files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk is taking too long to respond.”
Melissa Sheehan

Would you mind reporting it to Ruby Forge? http://rubyforge.org/projects/support/
Spectralcanine

All I wanted is to get eRuby to work on Apache and after many, many searches it lead me to this….
Can I finally get my eRuby? I am not really interested in Rails.
Jitendra Joshi

I am used railsinstaller-1.3.0 for my installation few months back. How do I updated my installation to railsinstaller 2 ? I guess just uninstall railsinstaller 1.3.0 and install railsinstaller 2 would be the right choice or not ? Can anyone help out on this.

Thanks
Melissa Sheehan

Jitendra, if you uninstall the old version and install the new version, you should be good to go.
Jitendra Joshi

That worked! Thank you, Melissa.
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