# InstantRails and ImageScience on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266 "2007-07-24T20:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Olly_L)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266/1 "2007-07-24T20:14:36Z")

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Has anyone successfully used ImageScience whilst running using  
InstantRails on Windows? Out of the box I don’t believe it’s  
possible given that ImageScience uses RubyInline which itself requires  
a C compiler, which of course Windows doesn’t ship with.

Unless I’m missing something obvious, does anyone have any suggestions  
for how I can get this up and running, or is it a matter of installing  
Cygwin and the Rails stack manually?

Cheers, Olly

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**Author:** ![Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Olly_L)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266/2 "2007-08-28T20:57:18Z")

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Olly L. wrote:

> Has anyone successfully used ImageScience whilst running using  
> InstantRails on Windows? Out of the box I don’t believe it’s  
> possible given that ImageScience uses RubyInline which itself requires  
> a C compiler, which of course Windows doesn’t ship with.
> 
> Unless I’m missing something obvious, does anyone have any suggestions  
> for how I can get this up and running, or is it a matter of installing  
> Cygwin and the Rails stack manually?
> 
> Cheers, Olly

Olly,

Just wondering, did you have any luck on figuring out how to do this?

Thanks,  
lab

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**Author:** ![Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Olly_L)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266/3 "2007-08-29T08:40:34Z")

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I’m afraid not. I think you can probably do it by installing a  
command line C compiler but I haven’t tried this. The best solution  
is to ditch the PC and buy a Mac 🙂

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**Author:** ![Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Olly\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Olly_L)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instantrails-and-imagescience-on-windows/110266/4 "2007-08-29T15:48:27Z")

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Olly L. wrote:

> I’m afraid not. I think you can probably do it by installing a  
> command line C compiler but I haven’t tried this. The best solution  
> is to ditch the PC and buy a Mac 🙂

Ok, I’ll try that.  
lol. I thought about that at one point (getting a Mac) hehe. Thanks for  
your help anyway 🙂