[ruby-talk:5422] Trouble setting up Ruby on Win98

I'd like to start playing with Ruby, but I'm having trouble sorting out
what to download.  I'd like to find some precompiled binaries that will
let me run Ruby on Win98 and let me play w/ Ruby and Tk. I went to
ftp://ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby/pc/, which gave me two options:
rbcw145.zip and rbdj145.zip.  What's the difference between the two?
Which one do I want?  And is there a precompiled binary for the latest
version of ruby (161)?

Just for fun, I downloaded them both.  When I ran "ruby.exe" in rbcw145,
I got the following error:  "The rubycw.dll file cannot start.  Check
the file to determine the probblem."  I could get rbdj145 to work, but
it doesn't appear to have the ability to run tk. Am I missing something?

Also, what is cygwin?

I checked the English language FAQ but couldn't find answers to these
questions.  Did I overlook it?  If it's not there, some of this might be
worth putting in the next version.  I'm a middling part-time programmer,
so if I'm having trouble figuring this out, there are probably other
folks who could use a pointer too.  This is a particularly good time to
to add it since I'm sure there will be plenty of newbies like myself who
want to give Ruby a shot given the glowing recommendations by Hunt &
Thomas.

Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman, who is eagerly waiting for Amazon to get H&T's
book.
The National Journal Group


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