From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T15:24:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Restrict Platform for RubyGem Update


On Mar 26, 2009, at 23:11 , Jj Jj wrote:

> I am working on a windows box attempting to develop a rails  
> application.
> Is there a way to ensure "gem update" or "gem install x" will not  
> try to
> download and compile native ruby gems ?

rubygems will download any platform specific gem first if it exists.  
Otherwise it'll download the "ruby" platform. If that gem specifies  
that it has extensions to build, it'll try to build them. There may be  
some extra way to specify that you don't want builds to occur, but I  
don't know it. See `gem help install` for more.