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Haven't developed on Windows in years but is there no package manager you can access via the command line or is an installer necessary?
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
Haven't developed on Windows in years but is there no package manager you can access via the command line or is an installer necessary?
- Tomte 12y agoThere is no current Windows build of Ruby at all.
- thinkbohemian 12y agoI don't think they're talking about a released build, but rather building it yourself from source (http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-compile-ruby-from-source-on.html http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-compile-rub...) which is what all mac and linux users do. Even the ruby package managers we use (i.e. ruby-install, rvm, etc.) don't have pre-built binaries, they download tagged source files with checksums and run build commands.
- cremno 12y agoAnd what has that do with the core developers? Is there a bug that prevents 2.1.5, but not 2.1.4 from running on Windows? The hostility against Windows is usually rather a community issue. And they're not releasing pre-compiled versions for any other OS either. Build it yourself [1] or try to be patient until Luis Lavena uploads the Ruby Installer for 2.1.5. [1] https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller (edit config/ruby_installer.rb to compile 2.1.5 and not 2.1.4)
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- rikkus 12y agoYes there's chocolatey which seems to be the most popular at the moment. Latest version there is 2.1.3 at the time of comment: http://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby http://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby