From: Thomas Volkmar Worm <tvw@...4r.de>
Date: 2009-05-07T03:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9.1 on windows

Hello Ian,

I guess, you can install gems, but not those which have extensions 
written in C, since this implies that you need a C-compiler etc. On Linux 
you always have gcc and gem can build those extensions. Pure ruby gems 
should work, if they do not depend on other gems, which use a C-
extension. Have you tried this?

BTW: This is not a ruby problem, perl suffers from the same problem on 
windows. StrawberryPerl is one approach to solve this problem. I would 
like to see a StrawberryRuby ;-)

Thomas