One of these gems is, surprisingly, sqlite3, a gem that’s needed to even complete the official Getting Started tutorial over on. Second: I’ve run into issues while compiling native extensions for certain gems. First: RubyInstaller, the most mainstream method for getting Ruby on Windows, is not available for every version of the interpreter. In my experience, there are two main roadblocks when trying to do this. There’s one truth that I quickly discovered as I went into my first real foray into Ruby and Rails development: Working with Rails in Windows sucks.