Problem installing rmagick in windows

Rails
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Hi - i’ve not done much with gems and am struggling with this one.
(rubygems.org seems to be down)

I’ve installed imagemagick with

ruby script/plugin install
http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_imagemagick_tag/imagemagick_tag/

That seemed to go ok - it looked like it was adding a few files
somewhere anyway.

Then, i tried to install the rmagick gem with

C:\code\InstantRails\rails_apps\newspipe>gem install --remote rmagick

It thinks for a while and then gives me this:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby gem_extconf.rb install rmagick

sh configure

gem_extconf.rb:38: undefined method `exitstatus’ for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)

Gem files will remain installed in
C:/code/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.8 for
inspection.
Results logged to
C:/code/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.8/gem_make.out

Does anyone know what i’m doing wrong? Is this the right way to add a
gem to my app?

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You can’t build the newest version of rmagick on Windows.

You need to download the win32 gem from Rubyforge. It’s an older
version,
they seem to have lost their Win32 maintainer.

Jason

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Jason R. wrote:

You can’t build the newest version of rmagick on Windows.

You need to download the win32 gem from Rubyforge. It’s an older
version,
they seem to have lost their Win32 maintainer.

Jason

Ah…ok, that makes me feel a bit less dumb. Thanks a lot!