

The new built-in syncing tool optimized for working on WSL is almost ten times faster than the previous implementation. The IDE’s memory footprint is now significantly smaller when working with larger projects. Simply download, double-click, choose an installation directory and run the Ruby install helper script and you’re ready to start using native Ruby extensions.įor installation details check out the Development Kit wiki page. We’ve significantly optimized RubyMine’s performance and memory consumption: RubyMine’s code completion speed was almost doubled. So you should upgrade to RubyInstaller-2.4 which makes use of MSYS2. It is built on MSYS1, which is no longer maintained now. The RubyInstaller Development Kit is a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions such as RDiscount and Nokogiri for Ruby on Windows. Alternatively a manual download and installation from MSYS2 is also possible. It can be installed through the ridk install command, which is part of RubyInstaller-2.4. Stating with RubyInstaller-2.4 we’re no longer using our own DevKit compilation, but make use of MSYS2 for both building Ruby itself as well as building Ruby gems with C-extensions. The DevKit that’s who! MSYS2-DevKit (only Ruby >= 2.4)

Sometimes you just want RubyGems to build that cool native, C-based extension without squawking.
