of Ross Singer
[rossfsin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:06 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows
If you absolutely must have a Windows development environment, you may want
to consider a JVM-based scripting language, like Groovy or JRuby. All
To summarize options:
- Linux VM in VirtualBox (ubuntu, fedora, centOS, etc.)
- Groovy (dynamic JVM language) is an excellent cross-platform option,
one I use daily. Especially if you are coming from a Java background.
The Groovy web framework comparable to rails is Grails.
I am attempting to write my first small Ruby app, but I am running into
major problems just getting off the ground developing in Windows. I
downloaded the most recent Ruby 2.0 package from RubyInstaller. Then I
installed DevKit so I could use gems. After some fiddling, I was finally
able to
I don't think anyone really develops, or deploys Ruby on Windows so nobody
probably tests any Gems on Windows. Hopefully someone here is an exception and
can help you.
You could run a local headless Linux VM and SSH into it...
On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
My *guess* is (and more sophisticated Rubyists can chime in and tell me I'm
wrong) is that the gems that are failing on your Windows install are the
gems that have Unix-ish dependencies -- e.g., the Blather gem wants to
compile something in C and is looking for gcc or make or something you
don't
Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on Ubuntu and Fedora VMs,
FWIW.
-Mike
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Justin Coyne jus...@curationexperts.comwrote:
If you see something about C-extensions, it's because the library is not
written in pure Ruby, it is a wrapper around a library
It's probably also possible to get these working within Cygwin. Assuming the
libraries you need to compile against are available in Cygwin, of course.
-Ross.
On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu
wrote:
Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on
DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not
be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment.
I know you cut them out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C
Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going on.
Also - which
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows
DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not
be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment.
I know you cut them out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C
Header Blather our way? It's
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows
DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not
be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment.
I know you cut them
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If you absolutely must have a Windows development environment, you may want
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