I don't think anyone really develops, or deploys Ruby on Windows so nobody probably tests any Gems on Windows. Hopefully someone here is an exception and can help you.

You could run a local headless Linux VM and SSH into it...

On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am attempting to write my first small Ruby app, but I am running into
> major problems just getting off the ground developing in Windows. I
> downloaded the most recent Ruby 2.0 package from RubyInstaller. Then I
> installed DevKit so I could use gems. After some fiddling, I was finally
> able to install some gems.
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> Some.
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> For any given gem I try to install, there’s about a 25% chance that I get
> this byzantine error:
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> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
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> […a whole bunch of gibberish about C headers and so forth…]
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> In particular, I am trying to install the Blather XMPP client. I am tempted
> to just give up and develop on Linux, but I am wanting to deploy this
> script to Windows machines and figure I might run into problems if I don’t
> develop in Windows. I have Googled the heck out of this issue and can’t
> find anything that is similar to my case (the solutions on the
> RubyInstaller Github wiki did not work). Do any of you Ruby people know why
> I might be having this error so frequently in my Windows environment?
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> Josh Welker
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