[bdcravens]

Why not Vagrant? Yes, it's a VM, but it really makes it much easier.

Is the issue of using ssh/CLI the issue? If you plan to use Ruby professionally, you're gonna need those skills.

Additionally, some things like Redis, common to many Ruby apps, just won't run on Windows.

[irmbrady]

Thanks for the response. Ruby is the only tool I currently use in development on Windows which I have flagged as a potential problem to maintain in the future. Thankfully, Ruby is a rather small part of my workflow, so waiting on RubyInstaller is fine at the moment.

My question was more of a concern for the future of my current dev setup. I was hoping someone on HN would know of a better solution to install Ruby on Windows manually, without having to wait on RubyInstaller.

I will check out Vagrant as you suggested.