ruby-ldap gem for Windows

Ruby/LDAP is a useful ruby library that allows you to connect to and manipulate LDAP directories like OpenLDAP and Active Directory. Unfortunately

• the library isn’t distributed as a gem; and
• depends on native LDAP libraries for its operation

This puts it out of reach for many ruby developers deploying to a Windows environment without an installed C compiler. In the past I’ve leaned on a few good Samaritans that posted pre-compiled versions, but unfortunately most of these have either been taken down or are really old.

So, in desperate need of an install on a new windows VM I just built it from source. If you trust our binaries you can download the gem-ified ruby-ldap build based on the latest 0.9.7 release and compiled using Visual Studio 2008.

unzip ldap-0.9.7-mswin32.gem.zip
gem install ldap-0.9.7-mswin32.gem

I’ve tested this on a few boxes, though your mileage may vary.

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