Ruby 2.1.5 Released

Re:Ruby 2.1.5 Released by k-mcgrady on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:35AM (#8607570)

Haven't developed on Windows in years but is there no package manager you can access via the command line or is an installer necessary?

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Re:Ruby 2.1.5 Released by rikkus on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:17AM (#8607841)

Yes there's chocolatey which seems to be the most popular at the moment.

Latest version there is 2.1.3 at the time of comment:

http://chocolatey.org/packages/ruby

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Re:Ruby 2.1.5 Released by Tomte on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:47AM (#8607651)

There is no current Windows build of Ruby at all.

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Re:Ruby 2.1.5 Released by thinkbohemian on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:53AM (#8607691)

I don't think they're talking about a released build, but rather building it yourself from source (http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-compile-rub...) which is what all mac and linux users do. Even the ruby package managers we use (i.e. ruby-install, rvm, etc.) don't have pre-built binaries, they download tagged source files with checksums and run build commands.

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Re:Ruby 2.1.5 Released by cremno on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:03AM (#8607761)

And what has that do with the core developers? Is there a bug that prevents 2.1.5, but not 2.1.4 from running on Windows? The hostility against Windows is usually rather a community issue.

And they're not releasing pre-compiled versions for any other OS either. Build it yourself [1] or try to be patient until Luis Lavena uploads the Ruby Installer for 2.1.5.

[1] https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller (edit config/ruby_installer.rb to compile 2.1.5 and not 2.1.4)

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