Hello, I missed blogging this, not because was not important, but because right now, I’m attending RailsConf in Baltimore.
RubyInstaller packages released.
Last details of RubyInstaller installers itself was sorted out a month ago, but was holding the release because wanted to be 100% sure nothing else breaks. I should have known better, you can never be 100% sure, so decided to stop stalling and release the final versions.
You can find the installers or 7-zip packages at our website in the download section:
http://rubyinstaller.org/
Which BTW, sports the new design from the pledgie, do you like it? (Sure I do) 
What to expect?
RubyInstaller team worked providing installers that works seamlessly across different versions of Windows, environments and a bunch of wacky requirements.
A few points:
- Releases for newer version of Ruby will be delivered more often, really.
- You can install RubyInstaller as normal user without requiring administrative rights (good for lock-down computers).
- Installer do not mess with your system or other Ruby installations
- You can safely uninstall it and your gems or customizations will be kept
- It is extremely fast to install
- It is easy to embed in other installers (silent installation mode).
But that’s not all!
Indeed, more stuff is published to RubyForge now: Experimental
Experimental will be the section dedicated to preview or beta version of Ruby. Right now you can find newer 1.9.2-preview3 version, just released a few weeks ago. Ideally, once it hits final, we will provide installers.
In the mean time, you can experiment with it and help Ruby community improve it’s support for Windows.
Please report any Ruby bug from it to Ruby Redmine bug tracker.
What is next?
We haven’t defined a Roadmap for the installers yet. The next target in the queue is 1.9.3, which is been worked in a separate branch since it requires newer libraries been build.
You can checkout this at our repository
Thank you!
Last but not least I personally want to thank all the developers and users that provided feedback about the installer, the building recipes and helped out with support details at the group.
Without them nothing could have been possible!
Feedback or questions?
Just join us at RubyInstaller group and we will happily answer them