The Ruby Installer 1.8.1-13 (final) for Windows has been released and is now available for download from: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/ This release fixes most of the problems with RI. One remaining RI problem is that it still fails with all uppercase items (like "RI CGI" and "RI IO"). Win32ole is working much better than in the previous release, but it still has problems. All other reported problems have been fixed (I hope :-). You can check for reported problems (or report new problems) at: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167 What is the Ruby Installer for Windows? --------------------------------------- The Ruby Installer for Windows is a "one-click", self-contained Windows installer that contains the Ruby language itself, dozens of popular extensions and packages, a syntax-highlighting editor and execution environment, and a Windows help file that contains the full text of the book, "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". Change Log for 1.8.1-13 ----------------------- - Included the win32ole from 1.8.1-10 because the win32ole as distributed in Ruby 1.8.1 is broken. - Hand generated the ri database from a post 1.8.1 Ruby snapshot (because ri in the Ruby 1.8.1 release tarball was broken). - Fixed the bad paths in the *.bat files in ruby\bin. - Log4R was broken in the Ruby 1.8.1 distribution. This was fixed by applying this patch: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/80495 - Win32api is present in this distribution, but broken. It will not be fixed because Win32api has been deprecated and you should use Ruby/DL instead. See: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/94569 Enjoy! Curt