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Ruby DevKit - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Ruby DevKit

- [Instructor] In the last movie, we learned how to install Ruby. But there's one more component that we need to go with it, and that's called the Ruby DevKit. DevKit is short for Development Kit, and it's essentially a piece of software, a toolkit that developers can use in order to build and use code that's written in C and C++. Essentially these are extensions, primary used by RubyGems, which we're going to be installing in the next movie. And that code is going to be written in C and C++, so it can be as fast as possible. So essentially we want Ruby Code to be able to work with code that's written in C and C++. And we need the developer tool kit to do that. So, the best way to find out information about the tool kit is from the GitHub Wiki page about it. It will give you all of the information about downloading it, installing it, and troubleshooting it. The URL is there at the top, github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit. You also can just simply Google for GitHub…

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