From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-12-04T23:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows 7 can't install rails...

On Dec 4, 2:10 am, Wilker <wilkerlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 nov, 02:57, "Dale E. Moore" <daleemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Luis;
>
> > Your response is WONDERFUL, thank you!
>
> > I've installedhttp://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/66872/rubyinstaller-1.9.1-p243-...
> > and she is working perfectly.
>
> > I appreciate your prompt and informative reply!
> > Dale
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Note, i'm having the same problem, and I did the instalation of new
> Ruby instaler (1.8), it seemed to worked fine, but this has seriours
> problems with some gems, in my case with Json gem (witch can't
> compile) and with Postgres-pr (witch having socket problems). I back
> to the older one click instaler, and them instaled Rubygems 1.3.5
> manually and all is working fine.

TO solve the issue of the gems need compilation you should have
downloaded the DevKit:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/development-kit

The Development Kit provides the compiler toolset required to install
gems that lack Windows native versions.

With it, most gems will compile and install just fine.

JSON authors and others are integrating a tool called 'rake-compiler'
to make it more easy release Windows gems of these projects.

Until all them do it, I recommend you install the DevKit.

Contrary to One-Click, setup of it is just extract and performance is
much better:

http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/08/04/a-faster-ruby-on-windows-is-possible/

--
Luis Lavena