Setting up Curb in windows

Question

I'm trying to use feedzirra with Rails 3 On Windows 7, but have been having real issues getting Curl and Curb installed. I found this question Install Ruby Curb gem in windows XP which enabled me to get the gem installed successfully, but now when I try and start my rails server I get the following error:

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/curb-0.8.1/lib/curb.rb:1:in `require': 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.   - C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/curb-0.8.1/lib/curb_core.so (LoadError)
    from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/curb-0.8.1/lib/curb.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
    from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/feedzirra-0.0.24/lib/feedzirra.rb:4:in `require'
    ...

the file curb_core.so does exist, but windows doesn't know how to open it and says it's not a valid Win32 application. Any ideas how I can get this to work? Or does anyone know of any other good RSS readers for rails, that don't use Curb?

Thanks

Answer 1

Ben,

Not sure if you're still looking to use Feedzirra, but to get it to work on my machine (Windows 7), I had to copy both libcurl.dll and libidn-11.dll into the Ruby bin directory. After that it worked with no problem.

Answer 2

Try copying libcurl.dll form your curl installation to ruby /bin directory. Solved the problem for me.