From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2009-12-28T13:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Gems on Windows

On 28.12.2009 04:43, Augusto Esteves wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby and I was wondering if every gem that works on Ruby
> for Linux works on Ruby for Windows.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: It depends.

*If* you use the RubyInstaller from rubyinstaller.org *and* the devkit 
offered there (simply extract the .7z into your Ruby installation 
folder, by default C:\Ruby), then Gems requiring native extensions 
*could* work, if no binary gem is offered.

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Phillip Gawlowski