What the Ruby 1.8.6 One-Click Installer Includes

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                           Ruby Installer for Windows
                              Ruby Version 1.8.6
                             Installer Version 186-27
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                                RELEASE NOTES
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                        Contents:           Version:
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                        ruby-mswin32        ruby-1.8.6-p287
                        zlib-lib            1.2.3
                        ZLib                0.6.0
                        RubyGems            1.3.1
                        Rake                0.8.1
                        RubySrc             1.8.6-p287
                        OpenSSL             0.9.8d
                        FXRuby              1.6.16
                        FXri                0.3.6
                        SciTE               1.76
                        OpenGL              0.60.0
                        GLUT                3.7.6
                        SWin                070409
                        VRuby               080229
                        Expat               2.0.1
                        XMLParser           0.6.8
                        Hpricot             0.6.164
                        RubyDBI             0.2.2
                        DBD/ODBC            0.9995
                        win32-api           1.2.0
                        windows-api         0.2.4
                        windows-pr          0.9.3
                        win32-file-stat     1.3.1
                        win32-file          0.5.5
                        win32-clipboard     0.4.4
                        win32-dir           0.3.2
                        win32-eventlog      0.5.0
                        win32-process       0.5.9
                        win32-sapi          0.1.4
                        win32-sound         0.4.1
                        log4r               1.0.5
                        Programming Ruby    1st Edition
                        libfcgi             2.4.0
                        ruby-fcgi           0.8.7
                        Iconv               1.8
                        readline            4.3-2
                        PDCurses            2.60-1
                        GDBM                1.8.3-1
                        Installer-Patches   1.8.6

This version was compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ 6, not Cygwin. As a result, some I/O functionality - particularly those involving the Unix fork() system call and pipes - will not work. The benefit of using MSVC is to have a more stable and reliable version of Ruby.