I just found this superb 10 min tutorial on Installing Ruby on Gates.
In order to have a fully working development environment, you can use your PC. You will need to install:
- Ruby - the language
- Ruby Gems - the plug-in manager for Ruby
- Scite or FreeRIDE - IDE for Ruby
- or RADRAILS from Aptana - IDE for Rails
- MySQL - the database
- MySQL query builder / MySQL admin tools - GUI to create databases, add users and create tables
- Rails Framework