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Ruby

Life Dragon
Life Dragon
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Posted by Life Dragon
Life Dragon
1,792 Points

How to write Ruby Code

How do you write ruby code on your own computer, not workspaces.

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Ruby can be written in any text editor. I use either Sublime or Atom (depending on my mood). If you are working on a Mac, Ruby is already installed and ready to go. If you're on Windows... yeah, a tad more complex.

You may want to have a look at Treehouse's workshops on installing/running a Ruby on Rails environment locally.

Installing .... on a Mac

Installing ... on a Windows

:dizzy:

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

As Jason said, you can create the files and edit them in a text editor (Ruby files are simply text files that end with .rb).

However, to RUN them you will need to install Ruby on your system - there are lots of tutorials on this if you Google for it.

Once you have Ruby installed and you have created a Ruby file you can, in your Terminal:

ruby my_ruby_file.rb

That will execute your Ruby file.

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

PS I secretly highly recommend you do this, rather than using Workspaces.