Installing ruby gem less-rails on windows machine using therubyracer

Question

since a while I am trying to install the less-rails gem on my windows7 machine.

I already managed to install the needed therubyracer.gem using this binary file: htt

Answer 1

1. Download this file: https://github.com/hiranpeiris/therubyracer_for_windows/archive/master.zip
2. Extract it to a folder and cd to that folder.
3. Install the gem file in that folder by gem install therubyracer*
4. The folder has 2 dll files. Copy them to your ruby/bin folder.
5. Add this to your Gemfile: `gem 'therubyracer'
6. bundle install

Have fun.

Answer 2

After a lot of research and trial and error it seems that less is not working on the windows plattform at the moment.

So my solution is to use the bootstrap-sass-rails gem instead. This is working pretty well.