Installing bcrypt-ruby gem on Windows

Question

I\'m trying to install bcrypt-ruby on Windows Vista.

So far, I have been able to install nmake.exe from a MS knowledge base article and cl.exe from installing Visual

Answer 1

On Windows Server 2003 (Ruby 1.8.6), the plain vanilla:

gem install bcrypt-ruby

worked like a charm.
Note that if you want to use it with Rails, you must use:

config.gem 'bcrypt-ruby', :lib => 'bcrypt'