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Install Ruby on Rails on Windows

Install Ruby on Rails on Windows - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Install Ruby on Rails on Windows

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- [Instructor] Once you have Ruby installed, then you'll be ready to install Ruby on Rails on Windows. When we install Ruby, it also installs another program at the same time called RubyGems. If you type gem, space, dash V, it'll tell you what version of RubyGems you have. Gem is the name of the program. Even though it's RubyGems, gem is what we type in order to access it. If we type gem, space, list, it'll list off the currently installed Ruby gems Ruby gems are just code libraries. They're things that allow you to do different things in Ruby. So for example, if we scroll up here, there's one called File utilities, and that provides tools for you to work with files in Ruby. If you look a little further down, here's JSON. That allows you to work with JSON. Or csv files, short for comma separated values. Now, Ruby on Rails is also a Ruby gem, so all we have to do in order to use it is to scroll down here back to the…

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