rubyinstaller2 VS rubygems

Ruby 3.x (for Windows, use RubyInstaller),

Ruby is the foundation upon which Ruby on Rails is built. Download and install the latest Ruby version from the official RubyInstaller website. This will provide you with the Ruby programming language and its associated tools.

To install Ruby and Jekyll on a Windows machine, you’d use the RubyInstaller. This can be done by downloading and installing a Ruby+Devkit version from RubyInstaller Downloads and using the default options for installation.

Here's the command line I used when downloading it. The exclusion flag didn't seem to work for some reason, and I have a ton of folders called things like "%3flike_comment%3d66879%26_wpnonce%3d4295aac3b6". If it matters, I'm doing this on windows. I installed Ruby locally on windows, and ran this command through the command prompt from that.

If you're just experimenting rather than trying to match a production environment, you could run Ruby / Rails on Windows directly: https://rubyinstaller.org/

I've been doing Ruby on Rails since the early 2.x days. (I dabbled with 1.x, but gave up to let it "age" a little.) For the first 5 years, I was on Linux full time, and it was great.

Then I moved to Mac, and it was almost as great. (The terminal situation and general integration of the command line is still more cohesive in Linux.)

For about the past 10 years, I've been at a standard Fortune 250 Windows-is-the-entire-world kind of place. I've been able to do my work on my personal Mac, but I've always made sure that I can do all of my Rails work on my corporate Windows laptop. There are times my code needs to access file locations and other applications inside the corporate firewall.

Obviously, people are correct that Ruby is not a "first-class" citizen on Windows, but RubyInstaller (https://rubyinstaller.org) has been a lifesaver. Not only does it "just work," and compile all the gems I've used, but it also includes a neat little script that addresses the common "corporate" practice of having to install custom SSL certificates so that IT can decode all traffic going through their firewall. (They install these certs directly into the Windows networking stack, but bundler doesn't use the stack.) The SSL bundle their script creates is also useful for use with Postgres database connections. You just need RubyInstaller, NodeJS, and a better terminal application (or maybe RubyMine), and you're GTG on Windows.

I've tried to use WSL, both version 1 and 2. If you need to support many Rails apps, and switch Ruby versions (with RVM or rbenv), that might be the way to go, but for just one (big) project, I prefer to stay inside the native environment. And even if I were tempted to use WSL, I'd rather just use an actual VM software like VMWare or OpenBox, and control the details of the virtualization myself. YMMV.

Feeling eager to run your very first program written in Ruby? Here's the link where you can download the installer for Ruby Runtime Tools: Downloads Ruby Installer for Windows.

Install latest Ruby+Devkit package which you can get from RubyInstaller for Windows.

Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Could not verify the SSL certificate for https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/nokogiri-1.13.10-x86_64-linux.gemspec.rz. There is a chance you are experiencing a man-in-the-middle attack, but most likely your system doesn't have the CA certificates needed for verification. For information about OpenSSL certificates, see http://bit.ly/ruby-ssl. To connect without using SSL, edit your Gemfile sources and change 'https' to 'http'

# Gemfile source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'dotenv' gem 'json' gem 'pry' gem 'rake' gem 'sassc' gem 'sinatra' gem 'sinatra-activerecord' gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'sinatra-static-assets' group :development do gem 'foreman' gem 'rubocop' gem 'sqlite3', '~> 1.3', '>= 1.3.11' end group :test do gem 'rack-test' gem 'rspec', require: 'spec' end group :production do gem 'pg' end

mkdir myapp && cd myapp echo "source 'https://rubygems.org'" > Gemfile echo "gem 'rails', '7.1.3.2'" >> Gemfile bundle install bundle exec rails new . --force --database=postgresql -j=esbuild -c=tailwind

With Ruby installed, you can now manage your RubyGems with the gem command. Install the Rails gem or update if you already have it.

source 'https://rubygems.org'

# frozen_string_literal: true source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '>= 3.2.2' gem 'aws-sdk-bedrockruntime'

RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 3.4.10 - RUBY VERSION: 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 patchlevel 53) [arm64-darwin22] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin/ruby - GIT EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/git - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/bin - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/specs - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/etc - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - arm64-darwin-22 - GEM PATHS: - /Users/michaeldaross/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0 - /Users/michaeldaross/.gem/ruby/3.2.0 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :backtrace => true - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - "gem" => "--no-document" - REMOTE SOURCES: - https://rubygems.org/ ...

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5/ext/mysql2 /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20231208-2396-1amnwp6.rb extconf.rb checking for rb_absint_size()... yes checking for rb_absint_singlebit_p()... yes checking for rb_gc_mark_movable()... yes checking for rb_wait_for_single_fd()... yes checking for rb_enc_interned_str() in ruby.h... no ----- Cannot find library dir(s) /home/julio/.rvm/usr/lib ----- *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.5/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-dir --with-openssl-include --without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include --with-openssl-lib --without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here: /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/mkmf.log extconf failed, exit code 1 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/gems/mysql2-0.5.5 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/share/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.5/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/mysql2-0.5.5/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing mysql2 (0.5.5), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install mysql2 -v '0.5.5' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.

Bundle complete! 14 Gemfile dependencies, 83 gems now installed. run bundle lock --add-platform=x86_64-linux Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/......... Resolving dependencies... Writing lockfile to C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Gemfile.lock run bundle binstubs bundler rails importmap:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace) rails turbo:install stimulus:install bin/rails aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - C:/Users/****/Desktop/Projects/Rails/MyFirstProject/Rakefile (Errno::ENOENT) :37:in `require' :37:in `require' bin/rails:4:in `' (See full trace by running task with --trace)

-----> Building on the Heroku-22 stack -----> Determining which buildpack to use for this app ! Warning: Multiple default buildpacks reported the ability to handle this app. The first buildpack in the list below will be used. Detected buildpacks: Ruby,Node.js See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks#buildpack-detect-order -----> Ruby app detected -----> Installing bundler 2.3.25 -----> Removing BUNDLED WITH version in the Gemfile.lock -----> Compiling Ruby/Rails -----> Using Ruby version: ruby-3.1.2 -----> Installing dependencies using bundler 2.3.25 Running: BUNDLE_WITHOUT='development:test' BUNDLE_PATH=vendor/bundle BUNDLE_BIN=vendor/bundle/bin BUNDLE_DEPLOYMENT=1 bundle install -j4 Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/........ 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Gems in the groups 'development' and 'test' were not installed. Bundled gems are installed into `./vendor/bundle` Post-install message from devise: