A single download that contains everything you need to run Ruby under various Windows operating systems. is available from RubyCentral’s One-click Windows installer. This installation uses cygwin, and includes Tk support.
If you want other installation options, precompiled binaries for Windows are also available from http://www.os.rim.or.jp/~eban/. If you download the ruby-1.x.y-yyyymmdd-i386-cygwin.tar.gz package (which is a good choice), you’ll also need to download the cygwin DLL, available from the same page.
Reuben Thomas writes:
You could mention that there’s a port to Acorn RISC OS, currently of v1.4.3. I made the port, and have no plans to maintain it, but I did send the patches to matz, so newer versions may well compile too.
I do provide a binary distribution of 1.4.3 for the Acorn at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rrt1001/ruby.zip.
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