Ruby on Rails has become very popular among web site designers and web programmers because it is designed to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created. If you're eager to start using Ruby on Rails, the first thing you're going to have to do is install it. That's the focus of this article, the first part in a series that will teach you the basics of programming with this versatile framework.
Installing Ruby on Rails - Installing Ruby (Page 2 of 4 )
The easiest method of installing Ruby is to go to the RubyForge website. To go directly to the download section, type this in your address bar: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org. Once there, you will see a list of different versions of Ruby for Windows. At the time of this writing, the current version is 1.8.6-25 (released on 03/18/2007). Click on the file, ruby186-25.exe (or whatever the newest version is) to download the file.
Once downloaded, you will see a .msi file like the one I would have shown below if my picture editor wasn't retarded. Double-click on it.
This will open the Ruby Setup Wizard, shown below:
Click on the Next button to continue. This will open the License Agreement window. Read through and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click on the I Agree button.
The Choose Components window will pop-up. Leave the values chosen at their default state, and click the Next button.
Next it will ask for you to choose the Install Location. Again, leave it at its default value and click the Next button (if you change the location, sometimes the install won't work. For example, if you put it in the Program Files folder it won't work because the phrase Program Files has a space in it; trust me I was hung up on that for a long time).
It will then ask for you to choose your Start Menu Folder. Again, leave it at its default and click the Install Button. The Setup Wizard will then extract roughly a billion files. When it is finished, click the Next button. Ruby is now finished installing.
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