From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-09-16T22:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: What OS do you use for Ruby development?

On Sep 15, 5:33 pm, Ed Howland <ed.howl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is OT, but I'd also like to ask if this can work with
> RVM. If you install the DevKit, can you then use rvm to install (and
> presumably compile)  other rubies?
>

RVM is a series of Bash scripts that works for bash and *nix like
environments.

Pik is a similar tool that works directly from normal Windows command
prompt.

On Windows compilation of Ruby is a bit more complicated because none
of the Ruby dependencies like zlib or OpenSSL are provided by the OS.

RubyInstaller repository contains the list of recipes and the needed
changes to those dependencies to work.

Also, compilation of all the dependencies can take a lot of time (up
to 30 minutes on Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz). I would recommend you use the
provided binaries instead.

If you have further questions, please bring them to RubyInstaller
group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/

--
Luis Lavena