Installing Ruby and Jekyll on Windows

How to Install Ruby on Rails on your system

Pre check

First, check if you already have Ruby installed. Open the command prompt and type ruby -v. If Ruby responds, and if it shows a version number at or above 2.2.2, then type gem --version. If you don't get an error, skip Install Ruby step.

Installing Ruby

1)      Visit http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

Download latest Ruby file. (Even if you have 64 bit windows, do not install x64 version). The download size would be around 18 MB.

2)      Download corresponding development kit. Search for Development kit on the same page and you will know which version to download and install.

Development kit should be installed in same path in which you installed Ruby earlier.

3)      Link Development kit to Ruby

Type following in Command prompt

Cd c:\RubyXX

      ruby dk.rb init

     ruby dk.rb install

4)      Install most important gems

Type following in Command prompt

Gem install rails

Gem Install WDM

Gem install Jekyll

jekyll build –-watch (To track changes in your source folder)

Gem install rouge

5)      You are done installing Ruby 😊.

6)      Check any missing gem by creating demo file

Rails new demo

7)      Anything missing can be done with

Bundle install

8)      Check the installation by opening following in Browser

http://localhost:3000

9)      Updating any gem is easy on ruby with

 gem update “Gem name”