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Ruby Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in Windows

Posted by Josh Tellington
Josh Tellington
3,372 Points

how to install devkit

im getting an error message when i type the command to install the dev kit. PLEASE HELP, i've taken multiple courses on this site and this is by FAR the most frustrating.

1 Answer

Zach Stearman
Zach Stearman
10,913 Points
Zach Stearman
Zach Stearman
10,913 Points

Hi Josh,

What does your error say? You were careful to download the correct version of the Dev Kit (x64 or x86)? The devkit files need to be placed in your ruby directory in a new file called devkit. If you attach the error, maybe I could give some more information.