It would be nice to cover Ruby/RVM under Cygwin as well in addition to RailsInstaller. As long as the right Cygwin packages are installed (git, readline, wget, patch, make, gcc, libsqlite3-devel, libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel) RVM installs just fine and then the reader will be able to follow all the remaining examples in the book directly.
You could add something like this:
Ruby with Cygwin (Windows)
Another option on Windows is install Ruby under Cygwin. If you are already using Cygwin then installing RVM and Ruby is done the same way you would do it on Linux/OSX. If you do go the Cygwin route then throughout the rest of the book just follow the Linux/OSX examples. Here are the steps:
First, make sure you have the following Cygwin packages installed: git, readline, wget, patch, make, gcc, libsqlite3-devel, libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel.
Then install RVM:
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash
Then just follow the steps listed in the next section to install Ruby.
You could add something like this:
Ruby with Cygwin (Windows)
Another option on Windows is install Ruby under Cygwin. If you are already using Cygwin then installing RVM and Ruby is done the same way you would do it on Linux/OSX. If you do go the Cygwin route then throughout the rest of the book just follow the Linux/OSX examples. Here are the steps:
First, make sure you have the following Cygwin packages installed: git, readline, wget, patch, make, gcc, libsqlite3-devel, libxml2-devel, libxslt-devel.
Then install RVM: curl -L get.rvm.io | bash
Then just follow the steps listed in the next section to install Ruby.