From: Ricardo Viegas <rviegas@...>
Date: 2009-11-15T02:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: download Ruby for Win-x64

Hi!
I'm completely newbie on Ruby; since I have a 64bit system and found Web references to a Ruby version for it, I tried to download it.

But I'll follow your hint. Thank you very much!
Best regards, Ricardo
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Ricardo Viégas
São Paulo - SP - Brasil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: walton@vyper.hopto.org
> Sent: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:22:00 +0900
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: download Ruby for Win-x64
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ricardo Viegas [mailto:rviegas@inbox.com]
>> Hi there!
>> 
>> In the Web there are a lot of references to the Windows 64bits version
>> of Ruby (a.k.a. x64-mswin64), but I was unable to find the site where I
>> can download it.
> 
> 
> A quick Google yields:
> http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html
> 
> Think it through though... are you sure it's worth it?  Most Gems won't
> have
> a pre-built
> binary for win-x64 thus requiring them to be compiled before
> installation,
> which can be
> a major nightmare.  I'd personally recommend going with the installer and
> devkit that can
> be found at http://rubyinstaller.org/
> 
> Hope this helps!

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