Before you go on with DevKit installation check your system for any of these. bash_profile) in user's home directory and these files can be a cause of DevKit malfunctioning. Usually these tools keep their configuration files (. If you have Cygwin or other MSYS/MinGW build tools in the path you should remove them. You have to take some precautions if you want to assure proper DevKit functioning. Throughout the book I'll assume DevKit is located at C:\Ruby\DevKit. It is recommended to unpack DevKit to a path without spaces since MSYS tools do not handle such paths correctly. Go ahead and download RubyInstaller's Ruby DevKit self extracting archive and unpack it. For Ruby 2.2 DevKit is based on 32 bit MinGW 4.7.2 compiler suite for Windows. It is a set of MSYS and MinGW based build tools that make it easy and simple to build native C/C Ruby extensions. One of the goals of RubyInstaller project was to make it possible to install gems written in C/C on Windows. No matter if you use Linux, OS X or Windows operating system you must have build tools in order to install such gems. Second type of gems are written in C/C and require build tools capable of compiling C/C source and creating shared libraries. First type of gems are either completely written in Ruby or have pre-built binaries for a system they are installed on. Gems that during installation do not require external tools and those that require them. Ruby gems can roughly be divided into two types. Ruby Version Managers Installing Native Gems
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