I am new to ruby development thanks to Jekyll, and want to install the Ruby DevKit for an existing installation of Ruby. The machine I am using has the following version:
ruby 2.1.6p336 (2015-04-13 revision 50298) [x64-mingw32]
This was installed with chocolatey package manager, but, from seeing the name, it is not self-evident to me whether this ruby version supports x64 or x86 architectures.
Is that ruby version x64 or x86? Thanks in advance.
That is the 64-bit version.
The x64-mingw32 is arch-platform format.
So x64 architecture on the mingw32 platform.
(platform is kind of confusing in this context but mswin would be Ruby compiled with the MSVC toolchain.)
The x86 version would be listed as i386-mingw32.
I think that chocolatey has a package that will install the DevKit for you as well, but I'm not positive on that.