Upgrading to Ruby 1.9.1 for Windows

February 9th, 2009

I spent some time upgrading to Ruby 1.9.1 not too long ago. For Ruby/Rails devs using Windows (I know there a few of you closet developers out there), if you're using the 1.9.1 preview binary, you need to add the DLL dependencies yourself. For some unknown reason, they did not package the required DLLs with the package. If you have 1.8.7 installed, you can copy the DLLs from that install's bin directory and place them into your Ruby 1.9.1 bin directory. Here's the list below. Note the change in file names for the zlib directory. 

-> [Ruby 1.9.1]\bin\libeay32.dll
-> [Ruby 1.9.1]\bin\readline.dll
-> [Ruby 1.9.1]\bin\ssleay32.dll
-> [Ruby 1.9.1]\bin\zlib.dll

I know Ruby/Rails wasn't designed with Windows in-mind, but if you're going to make it available, at least package the dependencies for it.

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