Ice 3.6b Ruby Gem

Starting with Ice 3.6 we will release our official Ice for Ruby distributions as a Ruby Gem.
To give you a chance to test this distribution format, and to provide feedback to us prior to the Ice 3.6 release I just uploaded the packages for Ice 3.6b onto rubygems.org. See https://rubygems.org/gems/zeroc-ice for details.
The install will also install the slice2rb translator. On a UNIX-like machine it will be installed into /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. On Windows it is installed to the ruby bin directory.
Note when installing the gem you will need to use the --pre command line option as the release is tagged as a beta product.
For example, under OSX to install the gem
Currently we do not have pre-built Gems for Windows. They should be available shortly.
To give you a chance to test this distribution format, and to provide feedback to us prior to the Ice 3.6 release I just uploaded the packages for Ice 3.6b onto rubygems.org. See https://rubygems.org/gems/zeroc-ice for details.
The install will also install the slice2rb translator. On a UNIX-like machine it will be installed into /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. On Windows it is installed to the ruby bin directory.
Note when installing the gem you will need to use the --pre command line option as the release is tagged as a beta product.
For example, under OSX to install the gem
$ gem install zeroc-ice --pre
Currently we do not have pre-built Gems for Windows. They should be available shortly.
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See the following links for details on the two gems.
https://rubygems.org/gems/zeroc-ice-x64-mingw
https://rubygems.org/gems/zeroc-ice-x86-mingw