From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T04:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: rake broken on windows?

On 10/16/06, msoulier <msoulier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Command failed with status (1): [c:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -IC:/Documents and
> Set...]

Spaces in pathnames. #1 reason to not install ruby into Program Files.
Only way around this issue is to enclose the pathname in quotes as in

c:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -I"C:/Documents and Set..."

Problem is that you'll need to quote the path in so many places deep
in ruby... So far  nobody dared to fix that. On unix, you can escape
the spaces with a backslash, on windows, I don't know of any such
possibility (see help for cmd.exe if you want).

Another way is to avoid such paths (possibly using subst).