# Ironruby packages

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-packages/201358>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-packages/201358 "2011-01-05T20:16:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-packages/201358/1 "2011-01-05T20:16:47Z")

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Hello all,

I’m the author of pik[1], which is a tool similar to RVM, but for  
Windows. I recently got a report that people can’t install the latest  
IronRuby packages via pik [2]. This is because the latest packages  
aren’t available on RubyForge. Currently, pik just scrapes the  
rubyforge files page to determine what IronRuby packages are  
available. I plan on coming up with a better solution than scraping,  
but my other concern is that I can’t find any direct download links on  
codeplex. You have to agree to their license agreement before a  
download can begin.

If anyone has any ideas of how I can solve this problem, and improve  
pik’s ability to install newer IronRuby packages, I would greatly  
appreciate it.

Thanks,

Gordon T.

[1] [GitHub - vertiginous/pik: Ruby version manager for Windows](https://github.com/vertiginous/pik)  
[2] [gist:766812 · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/766812)

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**Author:** ![gordon321](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gordon321](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gordon321)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-packages/201358/2 "2011-01-05T20:58:51Z")

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Hey Gordon,

We used to put IronRuby on RubyForge as well,  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=4359](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=4359), but stopped because we didn’t  
think  
anyone was using them. Sounds like pik was the one consumer, sorry! As  
for  
the CodePlex direct link issue, I think there is a direct link (via HTTP  
GET) that we could publicize, but I’m not sure what it is at this point,  
though firing up Fiddler and watching what CodePlex does should answer  
the  
question. If you can’t figure it out, we’ll find some other way of  
providing  
a direct download link.

~Jimmy