gem install globalchat https://rubygems.org/gems/globalchat Should work on Mac, Windows and Linux. On Linux you need a lot of dependencies but it will work. sudo aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev vim libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libreadline5-dev libreadline6-dev libxml2-dev git-core subversion autoconf xorg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev cmake libqt4-dev If you're really crazy to try it And I was able to achieve a degree of success in Windows with Ruby OCRA bundler, the EXE can be found here: https://github.com/downloads/jsilverMDX/GlobalChat2/GlobalChat2-Windows.zip Sources are in the main GlobalChat2 repository on GitHub Domo jsilver