Comments on: Actually Installing Ruby on Rails, on Windows 7

By: Rooby G

Rooby G — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:02:13 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial, it helped me alot

Rooby G

By: Erna Tercero

Erna Tercero — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:43:55 +0000

Excelent, i had weeks searching for help, this was great thank you Veriy much!!!!

By: haslo

haslo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:00:11 +0000

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By: Keith Liversedge

Keith Liversedge — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:30:19 +0000

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By: perherman

perherman — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:30:44 +0000

Have you checked the path?

Maybe you need to reboot in order for the path to take effect.

Se text above: “Next, add the newly installed bin directory to your path. Quickest way: Open the control panel, search for “environment”, then click “edit the system environment variables”, and add the bin after a semicolon to the “Path” variable. Then, change the path in devkit/msys/1.0.11/etc/fstab to where you put your stuff – you won’t have to do this if you put Ruby into C:\Ruby.”

By: amrish

amrish — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:59:27 +0000

i have just installed git and ruby on my win 7 git is workin fine but when i start ruby it gives me error unrecognized command what should i do.

By: johngo

johngo — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:48:19 +0000

I went to another tutorial
http://lifeofnavin.blogspot.com/2010/10/ror-on-windows-with-xampp.html
I am running xampp and it did the trick.

Still having trouble with the ri doc installs. Getting errors but rails does run!!

Now I’m trying to run and configure my first gem. Oh joy.

By: haslo

haslo — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:09:48 +0000

Did you also install the devkit (a separate download) from the RubyInstaller site? It’s described here:

https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

You’ll only need to change the devkit path if you also install that.

It’s been a while since I wrote this post, so it might not even be necessary anymore.

The other path, you should add “bin\” to the end of that, as all the executables are in the bin subdirectory of the Ruby installation. That alone should make your Ruby work already – if you don’t plan to compile gems, that should be quite sufficient

Good luck!

By: johngo

johngo — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:00:20 +0000

Hi,
”, and add the bin after a semicolon to the “Path” variable. Then, change the path in devkit/msys/1.0.11/etc/fstab to where you put your stuff –”

I set up a ;C:\xampp\Ruby\ do I add the devkit/mysys/1.011/etc/fstab to the environment variable Path? because there is no devkit/mysys…blah blah folder.

I simply added ;C:/xampp/Ruby
Not sure what to do with the devkit string.

By: haslo

haslo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:36:26 +0000

@manish nautiyal: The last time I reinstalled Ruby, I didn’t have any problems, I think if the paths are set right the dll will be found anyway. Or I did use some other configuration magic that I don’t remember. I’ll install Rails on another Win7 machine soon, thanks for the link

@Dan: Glad to be of assistance Isn’t Rails awesome?