From: "Douglas R." Date: 2013-01-27T09:22:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Devkit not recognised John Sampson wrote in post #1093470: > 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' You need to compile your Ruby code before you attempt to utilize it for any type of application, open a cmd. terminal and run the following sets of process on your version of RoR. If you already have Ruby installed on your machine, the gem is accessible via the command line, first get into the .bin folder at the root of Ruby directory: C:\>cd C:\workfolder\Ruby193.bin Then run the install snippet: C:\workfolder\Ruby193.bin>gem install rails And wait, it will take a minute for this to finish. When it is done, stay in the .bin file and try running the internal server: C:\workfolder\Rubuy193\bin>rails server If there is still any incomplete code compilation that is necessary for Ruby to act properly she will let you know, such as: "no json <1.7.6>" or "no sass <2.2.0>" just call the gem installer for each and every one until there are no more errors. Then run any external support process you would like to use for building projects in your editor, one by one through the same process, if you want to include coffeescript or whatever in a Ruby build then run: C:\workfolder\Rubuy193/bin>gem install coffeescript With any gem successfully installed you gain the ability to convert files into Ruby compatible support structures that will allow her to function more completely and make use of her deep dynamic control over the environment. This is also a good method for experimenting with the syntax and it is the best way to integrate diverse code into the Ruby environment, but... you can also place external assets directly into the build path in your editor, however the Ruby Gem must be installed and compiled from within the terminal environment for best possible results and I could not imagine wasting the opportunity to build a complete project bundle for fluid framing and super clean styling with way fast, very simple JavaScript, Ruby is a sweet language! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.