From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2013-03-18T19:25:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-2.0.0-rc2 on Windows under Cygwin. Cannot run IRB, gem, rake, etc

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:05:19 +0100, Wins Lin <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> So the lesson I took from it: I must forget about that
> Cygwin, throw it away from the comp, and use complete real Unix/Linux.
> No any substitutes. They are just waste of time. Unpleasant experience.

I use MinGW and it's pretty usable. (Never tried to compile Ruby on it, but I managed to compile ImageMagick when I needed it, so I suppose it would work.)

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Matma Rex