>rubycentral.com is down, i was wondering if anyone knew of a mirror to get the
    >ruby 1.7.2 (or 1.7.3) msvc msi package from?

I've moved the windows installer over to:

rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net

It's still a work in progress, but at least you can
download the latest version (installer version 8 of both
1.6.7 and 1.7.3) from there.

I added a few packages, you should be able to download FreeRide
and run without grabbing anything else, for instance.

Best of luck!

/\ndy


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