Overview

This is a one-click, self-contained Windows installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the book, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide.

The Ruby Installer is currently available only for the Windows platform. However, an installer for OS X is under development and we would like to hear from any developer who would be interested in working on an Linux installer for either Gnome or KDE.

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Ruby 1.9.1 p287 1.9.1-28 Final Release
Ruby 1.8.6 p111 1.8.6-27 Release Candidate 2

Ruby 1.9.1 is the latest stable version, but many users use 1.8.6 for compatibility with older software. You can visit isitruby19.com to check if the gems you use are compatible with Ruby 1.9.

Contents

A full installation includes SciTE 1.76, RubyGems 1.3.1, and these gems:

  • rake 0.8.1
  • expat 2.0.1
  • fxri 0.3.6
  • fxruby 1.6.16
  • hpricot 0.6.164
  • ruby-dbi 0.2.2
  • ruby-fcgi 0.60.0
  • ruby-odbc 0.994
  • ruby-opengl 0.60.0
  • vrswin 070409
  • vruby 080229
  • zlib 1.2.3
  • win32-api 1.2.0
  • win32-clipboard 0.4.4
  • win32-dir 0.3.2
  • win32-eventlog 0.5.0
  • win32-file 0.5.5
  • win32-file-stat 1.3.1
  • win32-process 0.5.9
  • win32-sapi 0.1.4
  • win32-sound 0.4.1
  • windows-api 0.2.4
  • windows-pr 0.9.3

News

2008.04.26

Development is underway on the latest version of OCI. This version will provide Ruby 1.8.6 patch level 114 compiled with MinGW. The move from the VC6 version of Ruby to the MinGW version should provide a more stable interpreter, and a better environment for maintainers of Gems with C extensions.

2007.12.16

This updates Ruby to 1.8.6 patch level 111 (lots of bug fixes since 1.8.6 was released). It also updates most of the included extensions to their latest versions (see the change log), and adds FastCGI and ruby-fcgi support.

These two new extensions allow you run your Rails application under IIS7!

2007.10.17

This updates Ruby to 1.8.6 patch level 111 (lots of bug fixes since 1.8.6 was released). It also updates most of the included extensions to their latest versions (see the change log).

The final release won’t happen until after RubyGems 0.9.5 is released (which should be any day now) because we want the latest RubyGems version to be included. However, we’re putting out this release candidate now to give you a chance to try out everything else while we wait!

2007.03.17

This release of the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows upgrades Ruby to the recently released 1.8.6 version. That's it… no other changes!