Hello, I'm very pleased to announce the release of RubyInstaller packages for Ruby 1.9.2-p136 As usual, installer and 7z-packages are available at RubyInstaller website and RubyForge for download: http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167&release_id=45314 For verification, MD5 signatures are provided: 9ce7db70da006994888171a0b1c2e809 *ruby-1.9.2-p136-doc-chm.7z 756458ddf5af07381c50e931eec025c9 *ruby-1.9.2-p136-i386-mingw32.7z 8e8843963dae29a98ce3e2ba2ee111f1 *rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p136.exe Installer is also digitally signed to avoid alterations and UAC warnings. You can read Ruby 1.9.2-p136 announcement and release notes at ruby-talk: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/375963 Only difference with official release is the applied patch to correct a Win32::Registry bug that didn't made it due timing. The bug report: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4203 = What is new? Beyond what is covered by Ruby itself, we have our own set of improvements: == Updated compiler toolchain to GCC 4.5.1 This is in sync with latest DevKit release announced: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/348cae99911975ba == Friendly gem installation error messages for gems that require compilation. Most of the times, people find confusing the massive error messages they receive when installing gems that require compilation and no compiler toolchain available. We customized this release to provide a nicer error message and helpful instructions to the user where to obtain a compiler and what to do with it. Example: C:\Users\Luis>gem install RedCloth ERROR: ¨Âòòïò éîóôáììéîç ÒåäÃìïôè ¨Âèå §ÒåäÃìïôè§ îáôéöå çåòåñõéòåó éîóôáììåâõéìôïïìó® Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit' We hope with this message will be make things more easy for Ruby users to figure out what is going on. Regards, -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-ExupñÓy