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Install Ruby on Windows for a Rails project

Install Ruby on Windows for a Rails project - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Install Ruby on Windows for a Rails project

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to learn to install Ruby on Windows so we can use it for our Ruby on Rails Projects. The first thing you need to know is that the minimum version of Ruby that can be used with Ruby on Rails 6 is Ruby version 2.5. Now that shouldn't be an issue because Ruby has moved on since then. 2.63 or later is recommended. And as I record this 2.7 is already out. Anything after 2.7 is fine, too. But 2.5 is the minimum. There are a couple of different ways that we can install Ruby. The first is we could go out to the Ruby Language website and download the source code and compile it for ourselves. But that's the most advanced way to do it. It's much easier to use one of the other options. Linux has a package manager that can install Ruby for us, but most developers use one of two methods, either RVM or rbenv. And both of those are Ruby Version Managers that allow us to install multiple versions…

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