From: John Sampson Date: 2013-01-24T20:25:53+09:00 Subject: Devkit not recognised This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070207060408000807090205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. I have Ruby 1.9.3p362 installed at C:\, and DevKit also installed at C:\, thus avoiding spaces in folder names and paths. The version of DevKit is DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20111229-1559-sfx.exe which seems to be the latest one. According to the installation instructions, I inspected config.yml and confirmed that it included the folder for my Ruby installation (I also tried changing the slash to a Windows-style backslash, with no effect). I did the test installation "|gem install rdiscount --platform=ruby" which gave:- ERROR: Error installing rdiscount: The 'rdiscount' native gem requires installed build tools. Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I added C:\DevKit\bin to the system path, and also tried reinstalling - "ruby dk.rb install --force", to no avail. Is there anything else I can try? | --------------070207060408000807090205 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running Windows 7 Home Premium.

I have Ruby 1.9.3p362 installed at C:\, and DevKit also installed at C:\, thus avoiding spaces in
folder names and paths. The version of DevKit is DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20111229-1559-sfx.exe
which seems to be the latest one.
According to the installation instructions, I inspected config.yml and confirmed that it included
the folder for my Ruby installation (I also tried changing the slash to a Windows-style backslash,
with no effect).
I did the test installation "gem install rdiscount --platform=ruby" which gave:-

ERROR:  Error installing rdiscount:
        The 'rdiscount' native gem requires installed build tools.

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit
from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions
at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit'

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I added C:\DevKit\bin to the system path, and also tried reinstalling -
"ruby dk.rb install --force", to no avail. Is there anything else I can try?
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