How to get Ruby Native gems to install on your windows machine

January 9th, 2011

The bane of any ruby/rails developer on a windows box (apart from piddling performance) is seeing the dreaded …
‘gem install error – ‘cl’ is not recognized as an internal or external command’

No more!
Devkit, a tool used by the folks who create the Windows Ruby Installer of each version of ruby helps you with (most) gems that need to be built natively.
Muchos Gracias to them for graciously providing it to us.

Entry Filed under: rails, rails_errors, ruby

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