From: Michael Brooks <michael.brooks@...>
Date: 2010-09-13T01:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

> From Marvin:
>> a side note, it would be really nice if the Windows Ruby installer
>> installed and automatically configure Mingw for GEM compilation so that
>> when I "gem install" something in Windows without a recent pre-built
>> binary that it compiles one just like Linux does.
>
> You know about the DevKit ( http://rubyinstaller.org/add-ons/devkit/ ),
> do you?
>
> Vale,
> Marvin

Hello Marvin:

Thanks.  I didn't know about that.  I'll check it out.  If it's what I was 
suggesting then my concern would be that it be a more obvious / automatic 
option for everyone so that the whole Windows pre-built binary hassle can 
fade into history.

Thanks again!

Michael