Ruby on Windows - HOW TO install and set up

Ruby on Windows
Tim Golden
http://TimGolden.com
http://twitter.com/Goldeneye
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History
Cygwin
Source Files
NotePad

Choices
Easy
Ruby installer
http://rubyinstaller.org/
Hard
Development Kit/ Build from source
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
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Installing Ruby
The one click installer does all the work for you 
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Installer
Location
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Installer
Finish
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Verify
Go to a command prompt and check the ruby version by typing ruby -v
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to open a command prompt you can go to the run box and enter the text CMDand click OK

Ruby Gems
Installing Gems
Package manger for Ruby
http://rubygems.org/
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Gem Install
Using a command prompt in your c:Ruby dir
> gem update –-system
> gem list –-local
To see what’s installed
> gem install “pkg”

SQLite
Precompiled Binaries For Windows section http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
sqlitedll-3_6_23.zip – you can think of this one as actually being the SQLite database that you will install on your machine
sqlite-3_6_23.zip –a command line utility that can be used to administer a SQLite database
Unzip them and put the extracted files in your rubyin directory (usually at C: ubyin).

SQLite
From a command prompt in your C: uby dir
> gem install sqlite3-ruby
SQLite/Ruby FAQ – all the different ways to use sqlite from a Ruby script
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Credits
Tim Golden – aka Golden~Eye~
http://www.TimGolden.com
http://twitter.com/GoldenEye
RubyForge - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
RubyInstaller - http://rubyinstaller.org/
Ruby On Windows - http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com
RubyGems - http://rubygems.org/
SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org -- http://sqlite-ruby.rubyforge.org/sqlite3/faq.html
Ruby Stack - http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack
Notepad ++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Netbeans - http://netbeans.org/projects/ruby/http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html
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