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If you are working with Ruby on Windows, make sure you are using the new MingW-based installer from http://rubyinstaller.org/ . I haven’t run into any problems doing Rails development on Windows with the latest installers.

When you get into stuff that relies heavily on external libraries (OpenGL as noted above, Tcl/Tk, etc) it can get a bit dicey.

Building gems to target Windows has become a lot easier. If you do run into a gem that won’t install cleanly, contact the author and ask them to look into building their gem with rake-compiler, http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler .

Very nice post. Very helpful.

Many, many times I have tried to use a third-party gem only to find that I had to monkey with core files in my Ruby installation. They’ll say “simply update file X” or “replace file Y”. As if no one else’s gem is doing the same thing. It’s shameful, really. Here’s what I found in this case:

“For manual build on Windows you need to have platform SDK and compiler that must match the one which was used for compiling ruby binary (for One-click ruby installer it is MSVC 6.0). You may also need ‘glut.h’ in SDK include directory, as the One-click ruby installer is missing it. You can copy the file from glut package at glut homepage. Alternatively, you can install the precompiled binary gem (see bellow).

Important note: If you are using the One-click installer version 1.8.6-25 or earlier, you must delete or rename files ‘opengl.so’ and ‘glut.so’ in C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt”

I am working on cakephp right now..

I hope in near time I study Ruby and could find difference between cake & ruby.

also i will wait for more articles over here and hope that those will help me in future when i will start ruby.