From: Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T00:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Ruby under cygwin

> It is, but it doesn't install the "rake" command to the /usr/bin area,
> installing from the package distro using it's supplied setup.rb does. I
> of course, only found this out after trying both :)

That's strange. I also use cygwin ruby. I have:

$ gem list | grep 'rake'
rake (0.8.1)

installed through ruby gems, and "which rake" shows the rake
executable at /usr/bin/rake .

I also don't recall having to set any environment variables to get
ruby to work. I have no $RUBYOPT set, for example. I downloaded
cygwin, and installed ruby using the cygwin package manager. Then I
downloaded rubygems 1.2.0, installed using setup.rb and everything
"just worked" after that. Perhaps this is why there is no detailed
HOWTO - the steps required in my case were quite minimal.

Apart from the occasional problem installing native binary based gems
I have found the ruby cygwin experience painless, and have never felt
the need to use the "one-click" installer. I can understand some
peoples aversion to cygwin though.

Is it possible that your system is using some non-standard defaults or
installation paths that are causing problems ? At some point perhaps I
can get a clean windows installation and try this again.

Chris