Pro-tip: developers hate making announcements. We’re antisocial creatures. IronRuby was last committed to 5 days ago (as of the time of this post). So it’s very much alive. https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/tree/master/Languages/Ruby
Here’s an overview of the current issues with Rails on Windows: Ruby and Rails are slower on Windows than they are on Unix-like OS’s. A few gems and libraries don’t work on Windows. Some Unix-isms aren’t available on Windows (examples). The community is mostly on either Mac or Linux (This is a particularly hard one … Read more
For the Windows OS, I used Fiddler to work around the issue. Install/Run Fiddler from www.fiddler2.com Run gem: $ gem install –http-proxy http://localhost:8888 $gem_name