I believe because WiX is not cross platform and what RailsInstaller team is trying to build will cover Linux and OSX plus Windows.

Having a uniform installer recipe is not a bad idea after all.

Thank you Jason!

I've used Procmon and Process Monitor from Sysinternals in the past:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/b...

API Monitor looks neat, will look if it supports showing API invocations from non MS symbols (GCC) as is one of Process Monitor limitations to look back into the stack trace.

Thank you for the hint!

I know JRuby is great for long running applications and server mode, but is good for developers?

You advertise overall best solution for Windows users, but Windows users wanting to do TDD and have continuous autotest checking your code, will be pointless.

Repo is here: https://github.com/luislavena/simple-bench-ruby-i...

Forgot to push the the JRuby modifications to the gem dependencies, but that is simple.

And the test is just simple.

If you start pointing out every difference with JRuby, the what users read online for articles how to get started then turn into something else.

If this annoys you that much, I can remove the JRuby numbers, which you consider invalid after all.

That is your point of view, but these numbers are what users see.

If we start saying that JRuby is best for Windows users, but then start marking all the differences and fine tweaking things, users need to do to really see these advantages, what is the point?

Average Joe wouldn't know this, and that is the point, isn't? You don't need to be a JVM expert to actually use Ruby or JRuby, that was the whole marketing slogan anyway.

If you download JRuby from JRuby website you get Client JVM, not Server.

So, here, on average usage, what average user will see, is what you see above.

Hey Aaron!

There is no strace, but Windows Performance Toolkit can also work. The problem is that it waits for PDB symbols, which can only be generated by Microsoft compilers.

Alternatives we have been looking at are VTune from Intel, which works indifferently and is also available on Linux for free (AFAIK)

Nice article Thomas!

Is awesome that someone post something about _why_ Ruby on Windows has it's importance.

Anyhow, and without being ANAL, The right regexp for host_os would be /mingw|mswin/ so the code can work on RubyInstaller (GCC based).

Thank you!

Yes! and there is SublimeText too, which works nicely too.

Such bold words for not reported issues...
https://gist.github.com/766407

It list 1.9.2-p136, JRuby 1.5.6, which is the latest, Perhaps IronRuby is not there if they moved the links pages.

The only thing missing is DevKit 4.5.1, but that is because the download moved to GitHub and is no longer in the RubyForge page.

But only works with jruby under 64bits OS (Windows 7 for example). Vagrant is nice to simulate deployment target and even run a CI there, but remember: Ruby is more than Web development and Rails, so Ruby can be used for other things too, where native beats virtualized.

Hmn, used to work before. Will look into this later.