As it stands windows support is the black sheep in the ruby world at the moment. Since the system doesnt come out of the box with a c compiler and many gems need to be specifically compiled under windows, I found myself looking for a way to achieve the same comfort as under linux/OsX and get some fresh compiled extensions using vs2008.
Since I haven't found a complete tutorial how to do exactly that on the net here is my solution: (Notice: I only tested it with json and ferret gems)
1) Install Visual Studio 2008. You probably require the Windows SDK. I used a Visual studio Professional installation and it worked out of the box.
2) Install ruby, rubygems and so on.
3) Open the file C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\Config.h and delete the “#error MSC version unmatch" line or the complete "if" version check
4) Add to your path "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE"
5) Run the vcvars32.bat file in a command prompt.
6) gem install json should now proceed happily with the build of native extensions.
Pretty easy huh? I learned to hate the lack of documentation in the ruby world. Feels more like a college open source project than a serious development environment.
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ruby in visual studio, I got to vomit :)
Igor you "Anonymous" its not Ruby IN visual studio, it's very simple: compiling ruby extensions under windows. You can do that with cygwin, mingw or visualstudio. This is not a ruby in steel alternative, its a cygwin alternative. ok?? :P
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