At the most recent, and fantasticly free, RoR class that Mark Menard was running (and has run several times); it was brought to my attention that there is apparently no real good one-stop solution for the RoR community of newcomers to turn to when diving into RoR on Windows.  It was pretty frustrating for everyone in the class that was sporting some nice flavor of Vista or 7, as they couldn’t just run one installer, or a batch script or anything like what can be found for BSD(Mac) and Linux.  So I came home and made a partial solution, WinRoR.  

WinRoR is a simple installer that gives a windows user:

• Ruby 1.8.7/1.9.1
• RubyGems 1.3.7
• Rails
• SQLite3
• Notepad++ (Pre-Tweaked for RoR Development)

Installation is pretty straight forward:

1. Run the WinRoR.exe
   —Found Here:
   — 1.8.7 –  DOWNLOAD [MD5: 196f93125e9c4d0681d4cc2ddf46bc26 *WinRoR_1-8-7.exe]
   — 1.9.1 – DOWNLOAD [MD5: 592515f359edff145e10f2367adb874f *WinRoR_1-9-1.exe]
2. Enter your WinRoR installation location and Click INSTALL
3. Click NEXT to install Ruby 1.8.7/1.9.1
4. Accept the Ruby License and click NEXT
5. Enter your Ruby installation location, CHECK add ruby to path and CHECK associate .rb and .rbw files and click INSTALL
6. When the installation is complete Click FINISH
7. WinRoR will finish up, then Click CLOSE
8. Navigate to the WinRoR Directory in your START MENU
9. Run STEP1
10. When STEP1 completes, run STEP2
11. When STEP2 completes, run STEP3
12. You’re done!
    Now in that same Start Menu directory, use Notepad++ and code away!

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any issues. Happy coding!