Windows Ruby Gem

See the installation page for details on using package management systems or third party tools.
Windows ruby gem. To run ruby on windows you have to install ruby and several developer tools. The following instructions have been tested with windows 8 and 8 1. Find more in the faq. It can be used for continuous integration tests ci on your gems or applications so that you re prepared for upcoming changes to the ruby.
Please note that some gems are not yet compatible with ruby 2 7 on windows. To be able to work on your ruby code with a windows gui text editor like vscode you should put your code someplace windows explorer can find it. This is because gems with c extensions are not compatible between ruby 2 5 and 2 6. Your computer s c drive is visible in the wsl at the path mnt c mnt is a linux convention for the location where drives are mounted and c refers to your c drive.
Become a contributor and improve the site yourself. Of course you can also install ruby from source on all major platforms. A list of rubyinstallers appears. If you are using ruby 2 3 and not bundler you must activate the gem version of openssl otherwise the default gem packaged with the ruby installation will be used.
Click ruby 2 2 2 near the top of the rubyinstallers list. Become a contributor and improve the site yourself. Rubyinstaller 2 7 0 1 has been released. Instantly publish your gems and then install them use the api to find out more about available gems.
On windows machines you can use rubyinstaller. Instantly publish your gems and then install them use the api to find out more about available gems. Rubyinstaller head is a daily updated version of the ruby development branch. Click the big red download button.