Ruby Mapscript on Windows

[Geo Aspects Development]

hi,

Actually, as far as I can remember, I did have to compile the Ruby  
Mapscript libraries from the source using SWIG. The Mac is just a  
flavour of unix these days so the instructions were fairly  
straightforward -  I don't have a Windows machine here so I'm not sure  
what you get with ms4w.

As you can probably tell, I haven't been able to spend much time with  
this for a while. Ruby in Space was never intended to be a framework,  
but rather just a tutorial to document how I got it all to run  
together, although I must say that there seems to be a lot of  
potential combining Rails and Mapserver.

If I remember any more information I'll post it here.

Tim
Geo Aspects


On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Carl Heinze wrote:

> I'm new to this list, so: Hi to all
>
> I'm just starting to work with mapserver - and i'm already stuck  
> during setting up my environment.
>
> I'm working under Windows XP and I would like to develop with ruby  
> on rails.
>
> What is working:
>
> Ruby on Rails
> Postgres with PostGis
> CGI-Mapserver (mapserv.exe)
>
> But i couldn't find any possibility to download the Ruby Mapscript  
> Libraries for Windows, nor could i find any Instructions for using  
> Ruby mapscript under Windows. I installed Mapserver using the ms4w- 
> package, but this is rolled out without the Ruby Mapscript (Why?)
>
> I would like to get the framework "ruby in space" (by geoaspects, http://www.geoaspects.com/rubyinspace.shtml) 
>  working - but they have only installation instructions for mac OS.
>
> So, finally, the question: How may I use the mapserver with ruby  
> under windows?
>
> If my question is not clear, apologise..
>
> many greets, Carl
>
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