Ruby - A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Ruby Development Kit (DevKit) is a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions such as RDiscount and RedCloth for Ruby on Windows.

Compass is an open-source CSS Authoring Framework. * Experience cleaner markup without presentational classes. * It’s chock full of the web’s best reusable patterns. * It makes creating sprites a breeze. * Compass mixins make CSS3 easy. * Create beautiful typographic rhythms. * Download and create extensions with ease.

Pik is a tool to manage multiple versions of ruby on Windows. It can be used from the Windows command line (cmd.exe), Windows PowerShell, or Git Bash. I have yet to test on cygwin. __Pik Commands__ * add - Adds another ruby location to pik. * benchmark|bench - Runs bencmarks with all versions that pik is aware of. * checkup|cu - Checks your e... More information

My preferred packages for developing with Ruby.

Set's the chocolatey_bin_root environment variable to a default value of 'bin' if not already set. This allows packages such as Ruby, Python etc. to install in \bin instead of the system root.

JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. It is Ruby for the JVM.

frozenbytes.extras installs extra platforms, languages, frameworks, and tools.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64... More information

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries. Some basic features of ... More information

Changes compared to the official Notepad2: Code folding, Support for bookmarks, Option to mark all occurrences of a word, Word auto-completion, Syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, AviSynth, Bash, CMake, Inno Setup, LaTeX, Lua, NSIS, Ruby and Tcl scripts, Improved support for NFO ANSI art, Support for replacing Windows Notepad using... More information

These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a new con... More information

Set's the chocolatey_bin_root environment variable to a default value of '\tools' if not already set. This allows packages such as Ruby, Python etc. to install in \tools instead of the system root.

This package performs miscellaneous actions to customize your command line experience. 1. Set environment variable « chocolatey_bin_root » to C:\Tools, only if it's not already set. Some packages that would otherwise install into system root will look for this variable. Packages that behave in this way are: Ruby, Python etc - almost any pack... More information

New Relic® provides SaaS Application Performance Management for Ruby, PHP, .Net, Java and Python Apps.

Leiningen is for automating Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire. It offers various project-related tasks and can: * create new projects * fetch dependencies for your project * run tests * run a fully-configured REPL * compile Java sources (if any) * run the project (if the project isn't a library) * generate a maven-style "pom" fil... More information

These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev virtual machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a... More information

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past. By default, latest Vagrant version wants to install itself in C:\Pro... More information

SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is used with different types of target languages including common scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. The list of supported languages also includes non-scripting languages such as C#, Comm... More information

Aptana Studio is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications. Based on Eclipse, it supports JavaScript, HTML, DOM and CSS with code-completion, outlining, JavaScript debugging, error and warning notifications and integrated documentation. Additional plugins allow Aptana Studio to support Ruby on Rails,... More information