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Ruby version manager for Windows
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pik install ruby 2.0 #156

Closed Marko-L closed 9 years ago

Marko-L commented 9 years ago

I would like an update if pik can install ruby 2.0 or greater. I read this post here https://github.com/vertiginous/pik/issues/152 that pik has been discontinued but that was in 2013. The reason is because I am still getting the error:

There was an error. Error: private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass

in: pik/commands/install_command.rb:24:in `execute' in: pik_runner:33

If I installed ruby manually using rubyinstaller, I can manage 2 ruby installation however, there is a problem sharing gems between the 2 installations.

Please help.

iwx1 commented 9 years ago

What is the exact issue you are facing? I don't know why pik development was stopped but I certainly like it when I work on Windows machine. Pik is great gem.

Marko-L commented 9 years ago

The issue is that I get an error above when I ran pik install ruby. I have opted to install ruby using ruby installer and the manage ruby versions with pik. It looks good so far

iwx1 commented 9 years ago

As per my understanding, after installing ruby using the ruby installer you just need to add it to pik using pik add <dirpath to binary file ruby.exe>. About my question, I was asking about the problem with sharing of gems between the 2 installations. Also, as the author of pik suggests using uru, have you tried it? uru is also very simple and the thing you can do is download multiple versions of ruby from their site in .7z format , unzip them and add with uru. It is quite simple. Ruby version manager basically gives you freedom of using different ruby versions which have their own gems installed, so I was bit confused about sharing gems.

luislavena commented 9 years ago

You should not be sharing gems across different versions of ruby since each version differs in binary api, which affects C extensions compiled at installation time or already packaged with the gem for a specific version of ruby.

Pik has been deprecated due the complexity in the code to maintain it. As suggested earlier you should use a simpler tool like uru, which performs the same functionality than Pik, except is maintained.

Hope that helps.