From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-01-19T02:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't install gems (Windows)

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Alpha Blue <jdezenzio@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.8.6 - One Click Installer (no headaches)
> JRuby 1.4 - use Netbeans 6.8 IDE ( very few headaches)

We would love to know what the few headaches are for JRuby. In my
estimation, it's the easiest way by far to get Ruby running on
Windows, and we have recently spent a great deal of effort on
Windows-related issues in our bug tracker. Plus for libraries like
Mongrel or Hpricot, there's no compile phase *ever* and if you need to
write fast "native" code, there are options like java-inline.

Support for Ruby 1.9 is a work in progress, but then so is Ruby 1.9 :)

- Charlie