Ruby Installer Overview
RubyInstaller is the standard way to install the Ruby programming language on Windows. It packages the Ruby interpreter together with a compatible build toolchain (the MSYS2 development environment) so that native gems — Ruby libraries with C extensions — can be compiled and installed correctly on Windows, which is historically the trickiest part of Ruby on the platform. The 'Ruby+Devkit' version bundles everything needed to start developing, including RubyGems for package management and an option to add Ruby to the system PATH. It is the recommended installer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails development on Windows. The offline installer is the full setup and installs without a network connection. It also bundles the irb interactive shell and documentation, and it uninstalls cleanly when no longer needed. You can reach the official Ruby Installer download from Rubyinstaller via the link on this page.