Having a bit of a nightmare getting bluecloth to work on windows. I grabbed the gem from the site (since gem install bluecloth doesnt work). However, I can't seem to get the library to load
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> false
irb(main):002:0> require 'bluecloth'
LoadError: no such file to load -- bluecloth_ext
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bluecloth-2.0.5-x86-mingw32/lib/bluecloth.rb:156
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem_original_require'
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>
any thoughts/suggestions? (besides don't use windows =P)
I ended up using rubyinstaller.org instead of the one click installer, with the devkit plugin. This lets you build native extensions on windows without any headaches. I then got the .gem (not the mingw32 version) from the website, and did a gem install seamlessly.