Comments on: Windows + Ruby Native Gems (1.9.1)

By: Fat Guy in a little coat, Ruby on Windows | Victus Spiritus

Fat Guy in a little coat, Ruby on Windows | Victus Spiritus — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:25:14 +0000

[...] to work flawlessly. Luckily Scott Anderson posted a useful trick for debugging native extensions at Geeksharp.com (thanks Scott). You gotta love the ability of hackers to figure something out, and share it with [...]

By: devil

devil — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:59:22 +0000

hi all,
I followed the instructions but I am still getting an error when I tried to install ruby-debug-ide:

C:\Windows\system32>gem install ruby-debug-ide
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
c:\Ruby\bin\..\devkit\msys\1.0.11\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn’t reserve space for c
ygwin’s heap, Win32 error 0
ERROR: Error installing ruby-debug-ide:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe mkrf_conf.rb
Building native extensions. This could take a while…

Gem files will remain installed in c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-i
de-0.4.9 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.9/ext/gem_
make.out

Have got somebody an idea what is the problem and how I can fix that?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:36:53 +0000

This article really saved my butt! Thanks so much for taking the time to document this solution.

By: 3dd13

3dd13 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:58:52 +0000

thanks … I was in trouble installing a gem on my windows machine, lucky that i found your article here !!

some error messages i saw which was actually solved by installing devkit.
- libcurl not found
- make not found
- no make target ruby.h needed by native.so

By: Faiz

Faiz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:39:49 +0000

excuse me, im was greenhorn about programing world

i confuse about last step installation ruby at devkit fstab

what the meaning about statments “Just open this file in notepad and change it”.

i try to move fstab to the \mingw and \usr\local after that i open command prompt and try to compile but nothing happened just display “ruby: No such file directory — helloworld.rb (LoadError)”

i try again but still display that..

please help me i really want to try ruby,,,

By: Regina

Regina — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:08:06 +0000

Thank you so much, I have been searching for an article on this for weeks! It’s amazing how information and technology can get the best of us sometimes!

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:12:37 +0000

Could not find main page README.rdoc

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:43:49 +0000

Thanks Scott for this great tutorial… I was lost and I found the path with this information…

By: Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:25:01 +0000

Thanks Luis! This is definitely a much better option for most than building from VC++ 2008. I really think the RubyInstaller project is great, and I’m happy to contribute! The only thing you might want to consider is adding the devkit installation as an optional part of the 1.9.x installer (maybe another checkbox or something).

Thanks for the hard work

By: Luis Lavena

Luis Lavena — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:55:27 +0000

Hello Scott,

Nice write up!

As developer of RubyInstaller project I would like to add your tutorial to our Wiki page:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tutorials

For others to find reference in the future about installing the DevKit and installing gems for it.

Also, compare the your previous post about installation of ruby-debug-ide, seems that the whole scenario has improved, don’t you think?

Will love to hear your thoughts on this as you now have migrated to other environment and have a better point of comparison.

Cheers!