Can anyone please help me where to find Ruby 64-bit installer to be installed on Windows 7 or can I install 32-bit ruby 1.8.6 or 1.9 installers(only one) on a 64-bit machine without any problem?. Any recommendations or links for documentation would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I have Windows 7 for quite a while now. Standard 32-bit Ruby 1.8.6 one-click installer works. I can both run Rails applications and "even" debug the code in NetBeans. Downloaded from here
Alex Kaushovik
2009-11-09 04:43:40
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Hello,
32bits Ruby can be installed in 64bits Windows versions thanks to WOW64 (Windows on Windows functionality)
There is no Installer for 64bits Ruby, and you will find a lot of complications in that front.
I recommend you use the upcoming RubyInstallers from official RubyInstaller website:
(Will be redirected to RubyForge, locate Preview 2 installers there). Both 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 are available.
Also, if you want more step to step instructions, please take a look to some tutorials we have collected here:
http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tutorials
Hope that helps.
Luis Lavena
2009-11-09 04:48:57
FYI: Luis is the maintainer, lead developer and original author of RubyInstaller. So, if he says it works, then it works. :-)
Jörg W Mittag
2009-11-09 11:14:11
It seems people have been compiling Ruby for 64-bits on unixes for a while now. You wrote "you will find a lot of complications in that front". Are you guys working on a 64-bit Ruby installer for Windows?
Jonas Elfström
2009-11-13 12:28:37
Ruby on unixes is different than Ruby on Windows. Ruby has a lot of dependencies that needs to be compiled in 64bits too to actually use it. See my post here:http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-January/000230.html
Luis Lavena
2009-11-14 17:26:12
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The Ruby team is still working on a 64-bit compiled version of Ruby for Windows. The 32-bit version works provided you do not need win32ole to work consistently. You will get a "Class Not Registered" error in some cases trying to instantiate a 64-bit OLE interface.
Latest I have seen on the ruby installers list is: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/b628af0efaaae5bd
This impacts some gems like virtualbox: http://github.com/mitchellh/virtualbox/issues#issue/37
Jeffrey Hulten
2010-10-28 15:35:31