I’ve been experiencing the issue with RubyInline conflicts when Active Record is used. For some reason, uninstalling RubyInline 3.7.0 does not work on my system. I’ve read in other posts that the jruby solution is now defunct and the only thing that actually does work currently on Windows is using scrubyt 0.2.6.

Is this true? Have people used 0.3.4 successfully on Windows recently? If so, what are the steps for installation?

I’m from a non-profit that is assembling a volunteer-based scraping framework for collecting information from Government of Canada websites. The scrubyt pattern extractors from 0.3.4 are attractive for use on a large scale, however a requirement is that the framework must be able to be installed reliably on a number of volunteer machines, many of which will be running Windows.

The less time wasted, the better. Please advise.

Jennifer