# About plugin install

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-plugin-install/165450>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 14, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-plugin-install/165450 "2009-04-14T03:25:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyung_won_C)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-plugin-install/165450/1 "2009-04-14T03:25:24Z")

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windows XP / ruby 1.8.6 / Rails 2.3.2

D:\test\rails\my\_app\>ruby script/plugin install  
git://github.com/internuity/quick\_scopes.git

=\> D:\test\rails\my\_app\vendor\plugins\quick\_scopes

quick\_scopes directory is empty!!

Why ?  
Git client is not installed…

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# Help Me!!

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**Author:** ![Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyung_won_C)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-plugin-install/165450/2 "2009-04-14T03:45:58Z")

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Kyung won Cheon wrote:

> windows XP / ruby 1.8.6 / Rails 2.3.2

Try this - I’m not kidding.

Install CygWin from [Cygwin Installation](http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe)

The installer lists Gitorious as one of its packages. Grab that.

Learn Bash, from any Linux tutorial

Open a Bash shell (a “dollar prompt”, like $).

Run cmd /c start . to figure out where you actually are

cd to where you need to be (but outside your rails project.

Run git clone git://bla/bla/blah.git

That will give you the clone, and a system to instantly install all the  
tools we  
use around here, and it will teach you a little Bash, which in my  
exalted  
opinion is more user friendly than Windows.

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**Author:** ![Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@Kyung\_won\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyung_won_C)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-plugin-install/165450/3 "2009-04-14T03:47:19Z")

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Kyung won Cheon wrote:

> Why ?  
> Git client is not installed…

Uh… how do you expect it to work without a Git client?

Try this in another folder:

git clone git://github.com/internuity/quick\_scopes.git

If you git nothing, install a git client. If you git something, move it  
into the  
vendor/plugins folder.